What is the fifth coloum in the output of "ip -stat neighbour show" stand for?
After a look at iproute2 source code, the fifth fields gives timer information on ARP
cache entries:
X/./.
: Number of seconds since theARP
entry was last used./X/.
: Number of seconds since theARP
entry was last confirmed././X
: Number of seconds since theARP
entry was last updated
Those timers are notably used to manage stale ARP
entries and decide when a new ARP
request should be issued. Refer to this insightful answer for more info about ARP
age timeout.