Thanks Henrik, > > It seems to me that the old arp entries should be evicted and > > replaced rather than having neigh_alloc fail? > > It is hard to tell what is best in this border case.. evict known stable > entries or fail new entries. I have a strong opinion that performance should gracefully degrade rather than fail! Others may differ... > Best action is to avoid it to begin with. thanks again - this will certainly work around the problem! Peter - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html