[ale] network rant

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:56 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Well I'm not sure.  When you use ifconfig to change an IP address of an
> interface the routes disappear.

It should work but it doesn't. In fact, '/etc/init.d/network restart'
uses ifconfig to stop and start the interfaces. The route caching is
happening elsewhere.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:52, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > stale routes?
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:29 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > If the external IP address and DNS for a systems changes, why do I have
> > > to REBOOT the linux machine to make all of the networking function
> > > properly?!?!?!
> > > 
> > > Changed an ISP. Migrated all of the old IP's to the new IP's. Migrated
> > > the firewall to use the new IP's. Restarted networking and firewall.
> > > Found the LAN couldn't browse to certain web sites (<gag><spit>AOL,
> > > MSN</spit></gag>). Went round and round with MTU settings, traceroutes,
> > > tcpdump, tequila (it didn't help, but it calmed things down a bit).
> > > Finally, I rebooted the firewall box and all was right with the world.
> > > 
> > > When, oh when, is the networking stack going to FLUSH memory on startup?
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