Enable Conversational ARP

Conversational ARP can reduce the number of cached ARP entries, optimizing usage of hardware resources.

Procedure

  1. Access global configuration mode.
    device# configure terminal
    
  2. Specify an aging-time value other than the default 300 seconds.
    device(config)# host-table aging-time conversational 600
    
    This example sets the aging-time value to 600 seconds.
  3. Enable conversational ARP.
    device(config)# host-table aging-mode conversational
    

Example

The following example summarizes the commands in this procedure.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# host-table aging-time conversational 600
device(config)# host-table aging-mode conversational