Re: ARP table overflow, ENOBUFS, denial of service???.

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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

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