Re: [Xen-devel] ARP cache problems / slow connect times in routed mode - Bug #596 opened

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 Apr 2006, at 17:05, Matt Ayres wrote:

> > A user of mine has debugged this issue for me.  It seems a Xen guest 
> > in routed mode wants to arp cache any host it connects to with the 
> > MAC address FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.  The user also identified long 
> > connection times due to this. While a remote host is in the arp cache 
> > connection times are fast (30ms or so), when it is not it can be well 
> > over 1000ms.  They have provided me the tcpdump output that proves 
> > this.  They also proved it is due to the ARP cache by statically 
> > adding a remote host to the ARP cache and noting that connection 
> > times are very low.
> > Full debugging information is attached to the bug.
> > Bug URL: http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=596
> I have assigned this by to myself and marked it as INVALID.  It 
> appears to be specific to CentOS / Fedora and my specific setup.
We'll be interested to learn the full details if you manage to work out 
what's going on. :-)
 -- Keir


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