neigh: probe application via netlink in NUD_PROBE
authorTimo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:43:04 +0000 (11:43 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:46:25 +0000 (15:46 -0500)
commita960ff81f0cd6390940faa75a078ac76acec7940
tree43dc27faed0507217a04bad7719f32be7ec08f1d
parent44a6bd865623be7154e495e228abb2a1465fe13e
neigh: probe application via netlink in NUD_PROBE

iproute2 arpd seems to expect this as there's code and comments
to handle netlink probes with NUD_PROBE set. It is used to flush
the arpd cached mappings.

opennhrp instead turns off unicast probes (so it can handle all
neighbour discovery). Without this change it will not see NUD_PROBE
probes and cannot reconfirm the mapping. Thus currently neigh entry
will just fail and can cause few packets dropped until broadcast
discovery is restarted.

Earlier discussion on the subject:
http://marc.info/?t=139305877100001&r=1&w=2

Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/neighbour.c