Question about arp caches

[Shawn Peng]

I find a lot references of the function neigh_release(), can you direct 
me to the one that releases a staled arp entry? Thanks.


On 11/29/2016 12:50 AM, Anupam Kapoor wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Shawn Peng <yisupeng at gmail.com 
> <mailto:yisupeng at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm reading the code about arp protocol. It seems like the kernel uses
>     the neigh_table structure to keep track of caches, right?
>
> ​yes.​
>
>     There should
>     be some code that remove the stale entries in the cache, but I didn't
>     find the code that does this job. Does anyone have an idea?
>
> ​look at neigh_release(...) and neigh_destroy(...). basically, 
> neigh_release(...) decrements the reference count of a neighbor, and 
> neigh_destroy(...) frees it when this reference count reaches zero.​
>
>
> ​--
> kind regards
> anupam​
>
>
> In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, and 
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