running out of arp-cache

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Thu Apr 23 20:01:05 CEST 2009


>>>>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:41:43 +0200, Henning Fehrmann <henning.fehrmann at aei.mpg.de> said:

    > Do you know the right kernel boot parameter to manipulate the arp cache?

    > If this is not possible, one should do it in the live-initrd or, latest,
    > in the nfs-chroot environment. Currently, I am not sure whether one runs into
    > problems already in the initrd.  
    > Is there a generic way to add a proper
    > /etc/sysctl.conf in the initrd or in the NFS-chroot, configured
    > somewhere in the make-fai-nfsroot.conf? 

You could call /etc/init.d/procps start
which is also the way it's done during booting a normal system.

-- 
regards Thomas


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