I figured out why my IP takeover was taking a couple seconds to take effect even though it returned immediately--the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/min_delay setting is by default set to 2, giving a 2 second delay before the route cache is updated or flushed. This meant that packets continued to go out the old interface for two seconds, until the route cache was flushed and the new route was used. Now what I'm trying to figure out is why anyone would want this value to NOT be set to zero. When would you not want route flushes and route changes to take immediate effect? Thanks again, 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
