Grant Coady wrote:

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:50:03 -0800, Pradeep Vincent [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

One more attempt. Attaching the diff file as well.

Signed off by: Pradeep Vincent [off-list ref]

--- old/net/core/neighbour.c    Wed Nov  9 16:48:10 2005
+++ new/net/core/neighbour.c    Tue Feb  7 17:38:26 2006

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@

*     Vitaly E. Lavrov        releasing NULL neighbor in neigh_add.
*     Harald Welte            Add neighbour cache statistics like rtstat
*     Harald Welte            port neighbour cache rework from 2.6.9-rcX
+ *     Pradeep Vincent         fix neighbour cache state machine
*/

#include <linux/config.h>

@@ -705,6 +706,13 @@
                      neigh_release(n);
                      continue;
              }
+               /* Move to NUD_STALE state */
+               if (n->nud_state&NUD_REACHABLE &&
+                   now - n->confirmed > n->parms->reachable_time) {

Hmm, you're suffering tab -> space conversion syndrome :(

Grant.

The attachment has tabs here, don't know what you're seeing.

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bill davidsen [off-list ref]
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