From: Arthur van Leeuwen <arthurvl@sci.kun.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Will advanced linux routing help me
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:41:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-98837175928536@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-98816711030206@msgid-missing>
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Sushil Suresh wrote:
> At the moment we are using trace and ping to check the availability of a
> particular site, and the status of a particular ISP
Yes, that is the only thing you can do.
> The problem faced in making use of these commands in a script is that, they
> may fail in case of congestion and may be misunderstood as failure of a
> particular ISP.
Unfortunately, this cannot be helped, unless you have some layer-2
indication of the link still being up (something like carrier detect on
modems). This is not usually the case, however.
> Also how and why do you flush the route cache?
The why is trivial: to make sure the routing code starts off with a clean
slate and you're not surprised by routes you think you have deleted.
The how is equally simple: ip route flush table cache
Doei, Arthur.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-27 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-25 2:51 [LARTC] Will advanced linux routing help me Sushil Suresh
2001-04-25 7:39 ` Arthur van Leeuwen
2001-04-25 12:50 ` Ramin Alidousti
2001-04-27 10:41 ` Sushil Suresh
2001-04-27 10:49 ` Sushil Suresh
2001-04-27 11:41 ` Arthur van Leeuwen [this message]
2001-04-27 13:30 ` Ramin Alidousti
2001-04-27 13:32 ` Ramin Alidousti
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