On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > Linux does regular unicast ARP probes to maintain its neighbour states > unless it gets feedback from upper layers, e.g. TCP ACKs or MSG_CONFIRM. > When a neighbour goes suspect it tries other default routes. > > This unfortunately only works for default routes currently, not for > multipath routes. Ah.. IC, indeed a nice feature. > RFC2461 is a good reference. Linux 2.2 uses the same algorithms for IPv4. You learn something new every day. -- Michael Weller: eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de, eowmob@ms.exp-math.uni-essen.de, or even mat42b@spi.power.uni-essen.de. If you encounter an eowmob account on any machine in the net, it's very likely it's me. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
