Comment 13 for bug 991481

[11:52:24] <apw> ok there are a continuious stream of updates from the kernel
[11:52:37] <apw> becasue link level mappings are in the routing table, and they appear and dissapear
[11:52:39] <apw> all the time
[11:53:04] <apw> try sudo ip monitor
[15:12:24] <ev> so basically this approach is bogus then?
[15:13:46] <apw> well it needs consideration whether it is being selective enough
[15:14:14] <apw> as as a naive user i look at the raw stream it changes whenever an arp entry appears or dissappears
[15:14:30] <apw> now they mey be doing it 'righter' by trying to select specific subsets of
[15:14:42] <apw> the messages, or not, one wuold need to emit the ones they keep/drop to see
[15:14:52] <apw> it is possible they have not adapted to the new world order
[15:16:41] <ev> new world order?
[15:19:05] <apw> when the link level addresses got promoted from another separate cache into the
[15:19:13] <apw> routing table, which sped things up
[15:19:53] <apw> so ipv6 neibour discovery results, and ipv4 arp results get put in as a real 'host route' now
[15:20:01] <apw> and then removed when they time out
[15:20:09] <apw> which might mean things looking for route changes would see both
[15:20:22] <apw> of those, and think networking changed, but you would need to shove a print in there
[15:20:24] <apw> to be sure me thinks