Re: Random packets loss under x86_64 - routing?

Peter Kruse
2005-01-17T13:58:23Z

Hello,

thanks for your reply

linux-os wrote:
>
> When they 'disappear', use `arp -d hostname` to delete the
> entry from the ARP tables. Then see if you can ping it.
> It is possible that the destination machine got re-routed
> and the new router's HW address wasn't updated in the
> ARP tables. If this is the case, I don't know hot to 'fix'
> it, but it's a new data-point. When you have dynamic routing,
> there needs to be some way to update the ARP tables even though
> they eventually expire.

There is no router between sender and destination host,
they are on the same subnet and connected on the same switch.

> The fact that `ping -r` works seems to show that the ARP table
> has stale entries in it.
>

Even directly after reboot when the arp table is empty?