From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:50:45 -0700

> In net/core/neighbour.c, method neigh_alloc, the
> ref-count is set to one near the bottom of the method.
> 
> I notice in neigh_create, for instance, the ref-count is
> increased again as the neighbour is put into the table's
> hash list, so that should account for that reference..
> 
> What is holding that first reference set in neigh_alloc?

Whoever calls neigh_create(), in your case it's probably
the routing cache via arp_bind_neighbour().

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