Forum Post: Can somebody explain me the relationship betwen the neighborTable and AssociatedDevList

hi

there are some inportant tables in the Zstack 2.5.1a

and i fell very confusion for the two tables,one is neighborTable  and the other is AssociatedDevList

for example,the  relationship between the ZC,ZR and ZEDs shown as follows

                      ZC

                       |          

                    ZR     

                      |        

                   ZED

In the neighbortable of ZED I  can find its parent information,and can not find any information in the AsscociatedDevList

But in the neighbortable of ZED I can not find information about its parent, and i can find its parent information in the AsscociatedDevList

can somebody explain me the neighborTable and AssociatedDevList in detail?

thank you!