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

From: "Chris Friesen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:21:02 -0600

I retested it on an x86 machine and am seeing similar problems.

First, "arp" gives the arp table as expected:

root@typhoon-base-unit0:/tftpboot/cnp/0-0-5-0/0-0-5-0> arp -n
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask 
    Iface
172.24.0.9               ether   00:03:CC:51:06:5E   C 
    bond0
10.41.18.101             ether   00:0E:0C:5E:95:BD   C 
    eth6
172.24.137.0             ether   00:C0:8B:08:E4:88   C 
    bond0
172.24.136.0             ether   00:C0:8B:07:B3:7E   C 
    bond0
10.41.18.1               ether   00:00:5E:00:01:01   C 
    eth6
172.24.0.5               ether   00:01:AF:15:E0:6A   C 
    bond0
172.24.0.13              ether   00:0E:0C:85:FD:D2   C 
    bond0
172.24.0.3               ether   00:01:AF:14:C8:CC   C 
    bond0
172.24.132.1             ether   00:01:AF:14:E9:88   C 
    bond0
172.24.0.7               ether   00:07:E9:41:4B:B4   C 
    bond0
192.168.24.81            ether   00:01:AF:14:E9:8A   C 
    bond2

"ip neigh show" gives nothing, but if I search for specific addresses 
from the arp table listing they show up:

root@typhoon-base-unit0:/tftpboot/cnp/0-0-5-0/0-0-5-0> ip neigh show
root@typhoon-base-unit0:/tftpboot/cnp/0-0-5-0/0-0-5-0> ip neigh show 
172.24.0.9
172.24.0.9 dev bond0 lladdr 00:03:cc:51:06:5e DELAY
root@typhoon-base-unit0:/tftpboot/cnp/0-0-5-0/0-0-5-0> ip neigh show 
10.41.18.101
10.41.18.101 dev eth6 lladdr 00:0e:0c:5e:95:bd REACHABLE
root@typhoon-base-unit0:/tftpboot/cnp/0-0-5-0/0-0-5-0> ip neigh show 
172.24.137.0
172.24.137.0 dev bond0 lladdr 00:c0:8b:08:e4:88 REACHABLE

Is this expected behaviour?

Thanks,

Chris