Re: "ip neigh show" not showing arp cache entries?

[Patrick McHardy]

Chris Friesen wrote:
> The original "ip" command and the new one ("/tmp/ip") both give the same 
> results--some of the entries are missing.
>
> root@typhoon-base-unit0:/root> ip neigh show all
> 172.24.137.0 dev bond0  FAILED
> 172.24.0.9 dev bond0 lladdr 00:07:e9:41:4b:b4 REACHABLE
> 10.41.18.101 dev eth6 lladdr 00:0e:0c:5e:95:bd REACHABLE
> 172.24.0.11 dev bond0 lladdr 00:03:cc:51:06:5e STALE
> 172.24.132.1 dev bond0 lladdr 00:01:af:14:e9:88 REACHABLE
> 172.24.0.15 dev bond0 lladdr 00:0e:0c:85:fd:d2 STALE
> 172.24.0.3 dev bond0 lladdr 00:01:af:14:c8:cc REACHABLE
> 172.24.0.5 dev bond0 lladdr 00:01:af:15:e0:6a STALE
>
> root@typhoon-base-unit0:/root> /tmp/ip neigh show all
> 172.24.137.0 dev bond0  FAILED
> 172.24.0.9 dev bond0 lladdr 00:07:e9:41:4b:b4 REACHABLE
> 10.41.18.101 dev eth6 lladdr 00:0e:0c:5e:95:bd REACHABLE
> 172.24.0.11 dev bond0 lladdr 00:03:cc:51:06:5e STALE
> 172.24.132.1 dev bond0 lladdr 00:01:af:14:e9:88 REACHABLE
> 172.24.0.15 dev bond0 lladdr 00:0e:0c:85:fd:d2 STALE
> 172.24.0.3 dev bond0 lladdr 00:01:af:14:c8:cc REACHABLE
> 172.24.0.5 dev bond0 lladdr 00:01:af:15:e0:6a STALE
>
>
> However, if I specifically try to print out one of the missing entries, 
> it shows up:
>
> root@typhoon-base-unit0:/root> /tmp/ip neigh show 192.168.24.81
> 192.168.24.81 dev bond2 lladdr 00:01:af:14:e9:8a REACHABLE


From a kernel perspective there are only complete dumps, the
filtering is done by iproute. So the fact that it shows them
when querying specifically implies there is a bug in the
iproute neighbour filter. Does it work if you omit "all"
from the ip neigh show command?
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