Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

2018-10-12 Thread David Miller
From: David Ahern Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:33:49 -0700 > From: David Ahern > > When a link's carrier goes down it could be a sign of the port changing > networks. If the new network has overlapping addresses with the old one, > then the kernel will continue trying to use neighbor entries estab

[PATCH net-next] net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

2018-10-11 Thread David Ahern
From: David Ahern When a link's carrier goes down it could be a sign of the port changing networks. If the new network has overlapping addresses with the old one, then the kernel will continue trying to use neighbor entries established based on the old network until the entries finally age out -