Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:57:29 +0100 | From | Peter Kruse <> | Subject | Re: Random packets loss under x86_64 - routing? |
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Hello,
thanks for your reply
linux-os wrote: > > When they 'disappear', use `arp -d hostname` to delete the > entry from the ARP tables. Then see if you can ping it. > It is possible that the destination machine got re-routed > and the new router's HW address wasn't updated in the > ARP tables. If this is the case, I don't know hot to 'fix' > it, but it's a new data-point. When you have dynamic routing, > there needs to be some way to update the ARP tables even though > they eventually expire.
There is no router between sender and destination host, they are on the same subnet and connected on the same switch.
> The fact that `ping -r` works seems to show that the ARP table > has stale entries in it. >
Even directly after reboot when the arp table is empty?
Peter
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