Re: ip_rt_advice

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:07:59 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> I have a strange messages at /var/log/debug:
> Apr 5 15:22:29 hurricane kernel: ip_rt_advice: redirect to 194.186.140.198/00 dropped
...
> But this addresses are really exist in my network. During this messages,
> machines with this ip are not available. What does this mean?

It means exactly that this host does not answer, but your host tries
to connect to it. Kernel suspects, that route is stale and tries to refresh
it before connection has been timed out.

It is pure debugging message and it can be commented out, if you see
no other problems.

Alexey Kuznetsov

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