Fwd: Question about arp caches

FYI -- Forwarded message - From: Anupam Kapoor Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 at 1:25 PM Subject: Re: Question about arp caches To: Shawn Peng ​On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Shawn Peng wrote: I find a lot references of the function neigh_release(), can you direct me to the one th

Re: Fwd: Question about arp caches

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 Or, what is the mechanism that the kernel uses to find the out of date entries?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

Re: Fwd: Question about arp caches

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Yisu Peng 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 mechanism that the kernel uses to find the out of date entries?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 crea

Re: Fwd: Question about arp caches

Oh, I see. Thanks. Appreciate that. On 11/30/2016 3:42 AM, Anupam Kapoor wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Yisu Peng > 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 Or, what is the mechanism that the kernel uses to find the out of date