Increase/Decrease route flushing time period in Solaris

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Apr 242008
 


Just as we saw modifying the caching time for ARP entries in the ARP table here. We can modify the default time that a sun Solaris system can hold the routing entries.

The default time for which a dynamically learnt Route entry in the routing table is 20mins (1200000ms)

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Display/Add/Delete/modify ARP entries in ARP Table

 Networking  6 Responses »
Apr 242008
 


Not so often we would end up troubleshooting or manipulating ARP and ARP tables in Sun Solaris. However, following are some of the useful commands which can help when required. The following commands will help you display,modify,add,delete ARP entries in Sun Solaris ARP table.

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Reduce ARP caching time in Sun Solaris using ndd

 Networking, security  1 Response »
Apr 242008
 


ARP attacks are the easiest attacks that can be launched on a network or a Server causing a Denial of Service. One of those things that can be done on the Sun Solaris Operating System is to alter the caching time for the ARP cache whch reduces the time that a rogue ARP entry stays in the ARP table. While this is not fool proof but can certainly make it that extra difficult to the hacker.

The default time that ARP entries are cached in a Sun Solaris system is 5 mins.

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