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.
Many thanks
Force broadcast ARP on the wan link
Re: Force broadcast ARP on the wan link
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?
Re: Force broadcast ARP on the wan link
thank you for your replymstombs 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?
Sound good but in practice what physically do i do
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Re: Force broadcast ARP on the wan link
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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