Re: Q: bad routing table cache entries
From: Sowmini Varadhan <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-12 14:47:34
On (01/12/16 17:40), Stas Sergeev wrote:
Updated testing results: After I disabled shared_media not only for "all", but also for _all_ interfaces individually, the problem seem to have stopped. So thanks for these hints. Now, as the media is actually really shared (same NIC/cable), I just wonder what's going on here.
I dont know the history of the shared_media tunable (or the rationale behind the default) - I was just reading out the code - perhaps someone on the list who has the history can share the motivation behind this tunable.
And unfortunately we still don't know why these redirects are ever accepted...
I would guess that it is accepted because there is nothing (no RFC chapter/verse) saying it should not. But the fact remains that the network is sub-optimally configured- each packet that triggers the redirect is now amplified at the router - one copy gets forwarded, and one redirect gets sent back. --Sowmini