Fwd: Question about arp caches

[Yisu Peng]

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 Or, what is the mechanism that the kernel uses to find the out 
of date entries?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>>
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>
> ​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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