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Commit 53385d2d authored by Bob Gilligan's avatar Bob Gilligan Committed by David S. Miller
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neigh: Netlink notification for administrative NUD state change



The neighbour code sends up an RTM_NEWNEIGH netlink notification if
the NUD state of a neighbour cache entry is changed by a timer (e.g.
from REACHABLE to STALE), even if the lladdr of the entry has not
changed.

But an administrative change to the the NUD state of a neighbour cache
entry that does not change the lladdr (e.g. via "ip -4 neigh change
...  nud ...") does not trigger a netlink notification.  This means
that netlink listeners will not hear about administrative NUD state
changes such as from a resolved state to PERMANENT.

This patch changes the neighbor code to generate an RTM_NEWNEIGH
message when the NUD state of an entry is changed administratively.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Gilligan <gilligan@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 188b04d5
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