@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/if_arp.h>
 /* needed to use arp_tbl */
 #include <net/arp.h>
+#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
 
 #include "main.h"
 #include "distributed-arp-table.h"

@@ -573,3 +574,21 @@ bool arp_drop_broadcast_packet(struct bat_priv *bat_priv,
 	}
 	return false;
 }
+
+void arp_change_timeout(struct net_device *soft_iface, const char *name)
+{
+	struct in_device *in_dev = in_dev_get(soft_iface);
+	if (!in_dev) {
+		pr_err("Unable to set ARP parameters for the batman interface "
+		       "'%s'\n", name);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* Introduce a delay in the ARP state-machine transactions. Entries
+	 * will be kept in the ARP table for the default time multiplied by 4 */
+	in_dev->arp_parms->base_reachable_time *= ARP_TIMEOUT_FACTOR;
+	in_dev->arp_parms->gc_staletime *= ARP_TIMEOUT_FACTOR;
+	in_dev->arp_parms->reachable_time *= ARP_TIMEOUT_FACTOR;
+
+	in_dev_put(in_dev);
+}

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ bool dat_snoop_incoming_arp_reply(struct bat_priv *bat_priv,
 				  struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_size);
 bool arp_drop_broadcast_packet(struct bat_priv *bat_priv,
 			       struct forw_packet *forw_packet);
+void arp_change_timeout(struct net_device *soft_iface, const char *name);
 
 /* hash function to choose an entry in a hash table of given size */
 /* hash algorithm from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table */

@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@
 #define ARP_REQ_DELAY 250
 /* numbers of originator to contact for any PUT/GET DHT operation */
 #define DHT_CANDIDATES_NUM 3
+/* Factor which default ARP timeout values of the soft_iface table are
+ * multiplied by */
+#define ARP_TIMEOUT_FACTOR 4
 
 #define LOG_BUF_LEN 8192	  /* has to be a power of 2 */
 

@@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ struct net_device *softif_create(const char *name)
 		goto free_soft_iface;
 	}
 
+	arp_change_timeout(soft_iface, name);
+
 	bat_priv = netdev_priv(soft_iface);
 
 	atomic_set(&bat_priv->aggregated_ogms, 1);