selftests: net: add a hint about MACAddressPolicy=persistent

New NIPA installation had been reporting a few flaky tests.
arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier is most flaky of them all.
I suspect that the flakiness is due to udev swapping the MAC
addresses on the interfaces. Extend the message in
arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier to hint at this potential issue.
Having the neigh get fail right after ping is rather unusual,
unless udev changes the MAC addr causing a flush in the meantime.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251127194556.2409574-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-27 11:45:56 -08:00
parent 4b1639cac0
commit aadff9f766

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@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ setup_v4() {
ip neigh get $V4_ADDR1 dev veth0 >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
cleanup_v4
echo "failed"
echo "failed; is the system using MACAddressPolicy=persistent ?"
exit 1
fi