Hi, I have an interesting (well, it is to me!) situation involving policy routing and VLANs. Apologies if the description is long-winded. The network is as follows: R2 ---- B / / / ---> A --- R1 \ \ \ R3 ---- C We send packets from A to either B or C (they are the same ultimate destination, reached via different routes), with router R1 routing packets based on various characteristics (such as DSCP). We are interested in ensuring that if the link from R3 to C goes down the packets that were destined for C get re-routed via R2. The policy routing in R1 over-rides what OSPF learns about the state of the link between R3 and C, and so traffic is still sent from R1 to R3. Our initial idea was to put in a second link from R1 to R3 which would be used to send packets back to R1 when R3's link to C was down: the policy routing in R1 is done on the ingress interface for packets from A, so R1 routes packets from R3 destined for B/C to R2 without issue. This worked as expected. R1 has a limited number of physical interfaces (and we may eventually have more links R4 - D, R5 - E, and so on), so we tried doing the same thing using VLANs. We configured two VLANs between R1 and R3 in the hope that should the link from R3 to C fail, traffic would be routed back to R1 down the second VLAN and, again, from R1 to R2 and on to B. The curious result was that packets were re-routed back down the *same* VLAN they arrived at R3 on. Taking out the second VLAN between R1 and R3 makes no difference. This seems highly illegal in routing terms, and I'm keen to know why it is happening. R2 and R3 are running Linux, kernel 2.4.21-pre4, zebra 0.94, and we are using the latest version (1.7) of vconfig for the VLANs. R1 has been either a Linux or Cisco router, with the same results. Any comments/explanations much appreciated. Thanks, James The Information contained in this E-Mail and any subsequent correspondence is private and is intended solely for the intended recipient(s). For those other than the recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on such information is prohibited and may be unlawful.