Re: What happens ? [ip_rt_advice]

Ricardo Galli Granada (gallir@atlas-iap.es)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 00:30:38 +0200 (MEST)


> Today , I happened to play with dmesg and found one strange thing that
> dmesg output is full of such message :
>
> ip_rt_advice: redirect to 207.179.39.5/00 dropped
> ip_rt_advice: redirect to 207.179.39.5/00 dropped
> ip_rt_advice: redirect to 207.179.39.5/00 dropped
> ip_rt_advice: redirect to 207.179.39.5/00 dropped
>
> What happens ?The kernel is 2.2.3 . It works well and response time
> is wonderful except this annoyance .
>

That's is route.c and regards the route cache. It received a
RTCF_REDIRECTED, I don't know if this is arp or ICMP related, but occurs
very often if you have a NAS and the client which was connected to your
server was disconnected from the NAS.

In any case, the client is not accessible from your machine.

BTW, I suppose this printk is quite annoying (or ar least disc
consuming) for ISPs, but it's easy to avoid it, just comment line 717 in
linux/net/ipv4/route.c

Best regards,

--
Ricardo Galli

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