On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:20:15PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > arp table is an L1 cache and the userspace daemon is the L2 cache. Via > the NETLINK_ROUTE protocol you can snoop all the neighbour table updates > that go on in the kernel and place that information in a userspace cache > of whatever size you like. Then you can configure the kernel to ask As far as I can tell the netlink messages are only generated unprompted when CONFIG_ARPD is enabled in the kernel? Otherwise RTN_NEWNEIGH is only generated in response to RTM_GETNEIGH. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
