Ricardo Galli Granada wrote:
> > 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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