Fwd: Question about arp caches
Yisu Peng
yisupeng at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 03:16:50 EST 2016
Sorry, seems I didn't make question clear. Maybe let me ask another
question to help with this. So, how is the kernel check those staled arp
entries? Or, what is the mechanism that the kernel uses to find the out
of date entries?
Thanks,
Yisu
On 11/30/2016 1:41 AM, Anupam Kapoor wrote:
> FYI
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> From: Anupam Kapoor <anupam.kapoor at gmail.com
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> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 at 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Question about arp caches
> To: Shawn Peng <yisupeng at gmail.com <mailto:yisupeng at gmail.com>>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Shawn Peng <yisupeng at gmail.com
> <mailto:yisupeng at gmail.com>>wrote:
>
> I find a lot references of the function neigh_release(), can you
> direct me to the one that releases a staled arp entry?
>
>
> neigh_destroy(...) is probably what you are looking for.
>
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> anupam
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