Force broadcast ARP on the wan link

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Force broadcast ARP on the wan link

Post by Radiotech » Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:08 pm

My ISP requires Force broadcast ARP on the wan link which was added to my Netgear router with a 3rd party firmware by the DGTeam.
I have recently updated to a new Billion router which is now suffering the same fate no through put (loss of routing) if left for more than about 15mins without any data packets.
The question is possible not easy but it is well over my head does anyone know a code / script for using the telnet command to force the ARP, this is along shot but worth an ask.
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Re: Force broadcast ARP on the wan link

Post by mstombs » Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:05 pm

What WAN connection type is that? ARP only applies to Ethernet comms on local lan segment AFAIK, and devices do fall out of the arp/neighbour table after about 5 minutes. But it is just a matter of timing out on no traffic can't you just ping the ISP gateway or DNS server every few minutes as a keep-alive technique?
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Re: Force broadcast ARP on the wan link

Post by Radiotech » Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:14 pm

mstombs wrote:What WAN connection type is that? ARP only applies to Ethernet comms on local lan segment AFAIK, and devices do fall out of the arp/neighbour table after about 5 minutes. But it is just a matter of timing out on no traffic can't you just ping the ISP gateway or DNS server every few minutes as a keep-alive technique?
thank you for your reply
Sound good but in practice what physically do i do
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Re: Force broadcast ARP on the wan link

Post by thechief » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:07 am

He said that you could ping the ISP's gateway/DNS servers every few minutes. If you want to automate the process, then you can check if your router's firmware supports cron jobs. If it does, then set up a cron job to do it. If not, then things will not be so straightforward - you might need to find a firmware that supports cron.
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