[ale] flushing routing table....

[Jerry Z. Yu]

I'd just restart the network interfaces, which turns off all interfaces as
well as routes assoicated with it. I used it all the time.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, James P. Kinney III wrote:

#Unfortunately, there is no "flush" in the route command. You can echo a
#null to the /proc/net/rt_cache to clear out the cache and then do the
#same for the /proc/net/route  . This will probably leave the box in an
#unstable state since it will now have lost the local loopback route. It
#might be better to flush the cache with a null write and use route del
#$i in a loop to remove all the standing routes.
#
#On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 08:22, John Wells wrote:
#> I'm using RH 7.1, route version 1.96.  Does anyone
#> know a way to automatically flush the routing table?
#>
#> When I try "route flush", I get:
#> Flushing `inet' routing table not supported.
#>
#> Thanks,
#> John
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