I have an android tab with hotspot turned on. When other wifi enabled devices get connected to my android device , their IP Address and other details get stored in the ARP table and I can access those details by reading from "/proc/net/arp" and I am showing them in a list. But when one device gets disconneted from my hotspot enabled android tab then the corresponding details related to that device are not getting cleared from the ARP table(When I read "/proc/net/arp" , the ARP table still holds the details of disconnected device). I want to Clear the details of the device which is disconnected.
Here is the code (accessing ARP table)
public ArrayList<ClientScanResultSO> getClientList(boolean onlyReachables,
int reachableTimeout) {
BufferedReader br = null;
ArrayList<ClientScanResultSO> result = null;
try {
result = new ArrayList<ClientScanResultSO>();
br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/proc/net/arp"));
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
String[] splitted = line.split(" +");
if ((splitted != null) && (splitted.length >= 4)) {
// Basic sanity check
String mac = splitted[3];
if (mac.matches("..:..:..:..:..:..")) {
boolean isReachable = InetAddress
.getByName(splitted[0]).isReachable(
reachableTimeout);
String name = InetAddress.getByName(splitted[0]).getHostName();
if (!onlyReachables || isReachable) {
result.add(new ClientScanResultSO(splitted[0],
splitted[3], splitted[5], isReachable,name));
}
}
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(this.getClass().toString(), e.getMessage());
} finally {
try {
br.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(this.getClass().toString(), e.getMessage());
}
}
return result;
}
Hope I am clear with my question.