mrouted will periodically age its neighbors and will remove a neighbor
if it hasn't heard from it for NEIGHBOR_EXPIRE_TIME. Unfortunately, the
neighbor pointers 'a' and 'prev_a' were never advanced when timer was
not expired. Therefore it would get stuck in a tight loop, advancing
'al_timer' until it would be greater than NEIGHBOR_EXPIRE_TIME. This
caused the neighbor to allways get timed out and dropped. Furthermore,
there was a second bug in this loop when deleting an item that was not
at the head of the list (i.e., prev_a should stay the same instead of
advancing).
This bug fix is the work of Konrad Lorincz. Bug found and fix made on
netbsd-6.
This material is based upon work supported by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center,
Pacific, under Contract No. N66001-09-C-2073. Any opinions, findings
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