Are R1/R2 running VRRP or some routing protocol? -Ahsan On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:10:27 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > - : 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
