Hello! > helped me understand a little better. Here's my attempt to answer > my own question. Is this accurate? Yes, absolutely. > The route cache may keep an entry for several minutes even > with no traffic or sessions to that address. Namely, approximately for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_timeout (5 minutes) on completely idle machine. Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org