MS/MX ARP & Mac Address Aging Timers

[DerekH]

Can anyone point me to the Meraki documentation that details the default aging timers for the MAC address table and arp cache please? I doubt that they will follow the Cisco usual defaults of 5mins for cam table and 4hrs for arp cache.

[xMerakian]

Both ARP and MAC are 300s. You can see the counter in the Tools tab of any switch or L3 Switch or MX.

[ChristophW]

Is there a way to change these timers?

[michael_h]

+1, I'd like to know if this is something that can be changed. 

[AlexL1]

Hi  DerekH,

At the moment, changing the ARP & Mac Address Aging Timers are not an available feature.

We take our customer feedback seriously and would encourage you to submit a feature request.

You can make a feature request by going to the bottom right-hand corner of any dashboard window and send the request through the "Give A Feedback" button.

Any wish that is made, sends an email to our Product Managers and Development Teams. These wishes are taken into consideration and are used to help shape our product roadmaps. The most wished-for items are incorporated into product development.

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Other_Topics/Give_your_feedback_(previously_...

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

[GIdenJoe]

Usually for normal endpoints the typical 300s/5minute timeout is perfect and should never be changed.

However routers usually talk to other routers and those connections are supposed to be rock solid so that is why Cisco routers use a much longer timeout on ARP entries.