[j-nsp] Juniper M40 ARP Timeout

[Sven Huster]

Julie

Can't you e.g. ping the M40 from the second server when it's brought up, so that the M40 picks up the new IP address?

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Sven

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:59:42PM -0000, Julie McGourty wrote:
> We are currently experiencing a problem with trying to change the arp
> timeout values on our Juniper M40 routers. The manual states that the arp
> timeout is 20 minutes and that this cannot be changed. However, we are
> having problems with 2 servers which are configured to failover from one to
> the other in a failure scenario. Because the arp cache is caching the IP to
> MAC address information for 20 minutes, we cannot contact the second server
> when it comes up to replace the first server.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way round this on the Junipers??
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