Re: ip route refresh

[Ahsan Ali <ahsanali@gmail.com>]

Are R1/R2 running VRRP or some routing protocol?

-Ahsan

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:10:27 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:48 Ahsan Ali's cat walking on the keyboard  wrote:
> 
> > Can you give some specific examples?
> >
> > I use linux extensively for routing and have never come across this.
> >
> > Show us exactly what you're doing and the route tables when you do it.
> 
> Well, I've noticed it first when I changed my router policies. From a computer
> I was telnetting a remote host on another subnet. The subnet was reached thru
> a Linux gateway connected to two routers (call them R1 and R2). In a first
> test R2 was down, so all the traffic was traveling over R1. When R2 was up,
> the traffic to the above subnet was redirected to the R2 router (i.e., I
> changed the 'route' policy of the gateway). Nevertheless, for a couple of
> minutes the traffic was going over R1.
> Another issue I've noticed was an error on the /etc/hosts (different machine):
> I wrongly wrote  the address of an host, thus pinging it was a real ping to
> another machine. I correct the entry and re-do ping, but it was still pinging
> the wrong host. After a minute everything was working fine, but immediately
> it was not. I believe it could be an arp cache problem, as you suggested me.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> --
> Luca Ferrari,
> fluca1978@infinito.it
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