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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:35:39 +0100
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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Subject: Re: "ip neigh show" not showing arp cache entries?
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Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> 2007-12-18 00:51
>> Chris Friesen wrote:
>>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>>
>>>> From a kernel perspective there are only complete dumps, the
>>>> filtering is done by iproute. So the fact that it shows them
>>>> when querying specifically implies there is a bug in the
>>>> iproute neighbour filter. Does it work if you omit "all"
>>> >from the ip neigh show command?
>>>
>>> Omitting "all" gives identical results.  It is still missing entries 
>>> when compared with the output of "arp".
>>
>> In that case the easiest way to debug this is probably if you
>> add some debugging to ip/ipneigh.c:print_neigh() since I'm
>> unable to reproduce this problem. A printf for all the filter
>> conditions (=> return 0) at the top should do.
> 
> Alternatively, you can download libnl and run
> 
> 	NLCB=debug src/nl-neigh-dump brief
> 
> and check if the netlink message is sent by the kenrel for the
> neighbour in question. 


It should be, according to Chris, "ip neigh show <ip>" does
show the missing entries, and in case of neighbour entries
all filtering is done in userspace.


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