Thanks for your quick response, Tomas. El 29 Aug 2001 a las 09:53AM +0200, Tomas Beinaravicius escribio: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: > > Routing in all computers is set to the router A, who has manual entries to > > a lot of internal networks. This router A has a default gateway for > > router B (the firewall) to reach the internet. > > All is good except when a machine (client machine) in a network reached > > using router A is down (failed machine). router A then tells "client > > computer" who wants to send packages to the "failed machine" to route > > then using router B (the firewall). So, the "client machine" adds a > > routing entry in its table visible only with "route -C", but i can not > > delete that entry. I use "mon" to check that computer a lot of times, so > > the routing cache about the failed machine is cleaned never. If i stops > > the mon daemon, the routing cache cleans automatically some time after, > > and i can re-start mon again without problems. > > How can i clean the routing cache manually? Or, can i force shortest time > > for the cache to be cleaned? > First of all, you may disable ICMP redirects on A, then route to B will > never appear on client machines. In this case, client can reach final computers through B? is A who sents the package sent by the client to B? > Second, you may put B on a different subnet than client machines, the > routing entry will not appear either. Well, this is not valid for me. A has only a lan interface, so i can put A on a different subnet, through B, but all the trafic will congest B then, i think. -- Andres Seco Hernandez - AndresSH@alamin.org MCP ID 445900 - http://andressh.alamin.org GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/3A48C934 E61C 08A9 EBC8 12E4 F363 E359 EDAC BE0B 3A48 C934 -------------------------------------------------- Alamin GSM SMS Gateway - http://www.alamin.org Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org Grupo de Usuarios de GNU/Linux de Guadalajara y alrededores - http://gulalcarria.sourceforge.net --------------------------------------------------
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