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SubjectRoute cache problem.

Hi,

My workstation has an incorrect route cache entry:

assurancetourix:~> route -nC | head -2 ; route -nC | grep 234.34
Kernel IP routing cache
Source Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.34 192.168.235.251 0 0 3 eth0
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.34 192.168.235.251 0 0 4 eth0
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.34 192.168.235.251 0 0 2 eth0

(I don't know why there are three).

the correct routing cache entries would look something like this:
(this one works):
assurancetourix:~> route -nC | head -2 ; route -nC | grep 234.20
Kernel IP routing cache
Source Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.20 192.168.235.4 0 0 1 eth0
192.168.234.20 192.168.235.8 192.168.235.8 l 0 0 0 lo
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.20 192.168.235.4 0 0 0 eth0

The routing table is:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.235.251 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
192.168.234.0 192.168.235.4 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.235.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0
192.168.235.2 192.168.235.4 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0

It's the third line that is supposed to steer packets for '234.34 to
the proper router that knows how to reach the 234.0 network.

As a temporary workaround I've added the route to 192.168.235.2 which
is that same host, but not in the nameserver, so it's annoying.
(the other host that I can't reach due to this problem doesn't have
a second IP address (yet)).

Oh... routing to 192.168.234.34 works on the router 192.168.235.4:
PING 192.168.234.34 (192.168.234.34) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.234.34: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=41.5 ms

Anyway, what would you suggest for me to try to get that invalid
route cache entry dropped?

Drop the default route? Ok. Done:
# route del default
# ping 192.168.234.34
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1007ms

I'm used to the default route being at the bottom, but deleting it should
be enough to prevent it from being found first, right? :-)

Add a host route to this host explicitly naming the router?

assurancetourix:~# route add 192.168.234.34 gw driepoot
assurancetourix:~# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
192.168.234.0 192.168.235.4 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.234.34 192.168.235.4 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.235.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0
192.168.235.2 192.168.235.4 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0
assurancetourix:~# ping 192.168.234.34 -c 2
....
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1008ms

Still the packets end up on the ethernet with the 192.168.235.251 router's
Ethernet address.....

assurancetourix:~# route -nC | head -2 ; route -nC | grep 234.34
Kernel IP routing cache
Source Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.34 192.168.235.251 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.34 192.168.235.251 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.235.8 192.168.234.34 192.168.235.251 0 0 5 eth0


# ifconfig eth0 down
# route -n
<empty table>
# ifconfig eth0 up
<old routing table is restored automatically??? apparently with the routing
cache entries as well....>


I initially thought that this was a problem with the routing
cache entry being too persistent in the kernel. While documenting
this while writing this email, I've found that I can flush the whole routing
cache with "ip route flush cache" .

However the routing cache entry springs back to life when I first
ping the 234.34 host. Even when the problem machine doesn't have a
default route, so it shouldn't know about the 235.251 default router.

This is getting weirder and weirder.

During all this I have
# tcpdump -nei eth0 net 192.168.234.0/24
running. If my machine were to get an ICMP redirect from somewhere
I'd see it, right?

It could be that the 192.168.235.251 router is proxy-arping (incorreclty)
for the problem hosts. But then my workstation would have to be
ARPing in the first place.

# route add 192.168.234.200 eth0
# ping 192.168.234.200
gives:
15:31:33.857343 00:23:54:15:1f:a9 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Request who-has 192.168.234.200 tell 192.168.235.8, length 28
in the TCPDUMP, so my machine is not arping for 192.168.234.34.

Any suggestions? Any at all?

Roger.

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