Re: [Netdisco] Setting macsuck, arpnip to run once a day

[Simon H. <li...@th...>]

Andy Ruhl <ac...@gm...> wrote:

> ... consequently macsuck and arpnip are running nearly constantly. I don't mind if they only run once a day or so. 

You do realise that both of these grab dynamic information and will be of limited (if any) use if not run frequently ?
For example, a switch will typically delete a MAC table entry after something like 5 to 15 minutes after a device is disconnected/switched off. Thus if you only scan once/day, you'll miss devices that aren't connected & switched on during a fairly small window. Ditto for ARP table entries on routers.

I don't know if there's an existing ability, but simply rate-limiting queries would seem to be the best way round this - it's how I'd prefer to do it on a large network.