[Users] Re: Hosts not responding, kinda urgent

Toby Burress tdb at dimins.com
Sat Feb 20 02:00:05 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:51:23PM -0800, Gregor at HostGIS wrote:
> Any ideas as to what could have caused this "outage" in the first place,  
> and why sending a ping would have fixed it?

It sounds like the switches they're attached to don't have the right
arp information.

Make sure proxy_arp is enabled, the sysctl is something like:

net.ipv4.conf.eth1.proxy_arp = 1


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