I'm trying to swap an IP alias from one network card to another, and so I'm flushing the route cache. To measure how long this takes, I have "route -C" running in one window with a timestamp (seconds and microseconds) after each iteration. I then issue the "ip route flush cache" command with a timestamp after it in another window. This returns right away. However, from the time the command is issued until the cache is actually cleared is two whole seconds. I would have expected it to be essentially instantaneous. Does anyone know why this is taking so long and maybe how I could speed it up? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
