On (05/30/17 18:42), David Ahern wrote: > It has been noticed. I have not sent a patch since adjusting gc > parameters will reclaim FAILED entries at whatever rate the user wants.
Overly aggressive garbage collection will delete other (non-FAILED) entries as well, and can trigger needless re-ARP (or re-ND), whereas the admin may just want to lose some selective static arp/NCE entries. --Sowmini