From 8164f1b79731ad8ad9c713dc53d587a3b746f82f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Greear Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:19:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ipv4: Fix ARP behavior with many mac-vlans Ben Greear wrote: > I have 500 mac-vlans on a system talking to 500 other > mac-vlans. My problem is that the arp-table gets extremely > huge because every time an arp-request comes in on all mac-vlans, > a stale arp entry is added for each mac-vlan. I have filtering > turned on, but that doesn't help because the neigh_event_ns call > below will cause a stale neighbor entry to be created regardless > of whether a replay will be sent or not. > Maybe the neigh_event code should be below the checks for dont_send, > and only create check neigh_event_ns if we are !dont_send? The attached patch makes it work much better for me. The patch will cause the code to NOT create a stale neighbor entry if we are not going to respond to the ARP request. The old code *would* create a stale entry even if we are not going to respond. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed