Fwd: Question about arp caches

[Anupam Kapoor]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Yisu Peng <yisupeng at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 mechanism that the kernel uses to find the out of date entries?


​ok sure, well, each neighbor entry (struct neighbour) has a 'timer' (which
is created during neighbor creation i.e. during neigh_alloc(...)). this
timer gets 'serviced' by '​neigh_timer_handler(...)', which is the per
neighbor garbage collector handler.

when the state of the neighbor becomes NUD_FAILED, the neighbor is
collected via invokation of 'neigh_release(...)' as indicated earlier.

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kind regards
anupam​

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