On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:48 Ahsan Ali's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Can you give some specific examples? > > I use linux extensively for routing and have never come across this. > > Show us exactly what you're doing and the route tables when you do it. Well, I've noticed it first when I changed my router policies. From a computer I was telnetting a remote host on another subnet. The subnet was reached thru a Linux gateway connected to two routers (call them R1 and R2). In a first test R2 was down, so all the traffic was traveling over R1. When R2 was up, the traffic to the above subnet was redirected to the R2 router (i.e., I changed the 'route' policy of the gateway). Nevertheless, for a couple of minutes the traffic was going over R1. Another issue I've noticed was an error on the /etc/hosts (different machine): I wrongly wrote the address of an host, thus pinging it was a real ping to another machine. I correct the entry and re-do ping, but it was still pinging the wrong host. After a minute everything was working fine, but immediately it was not. I believe it could be an arp cache problem, as you suggested me. Thanks, Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
