Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Re: no route to host (when there is a route )

On 01/05/18(Tue) 21:28, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> [...]
> So what you are doing seems fragile to me. It may sometimes work
> due to order of configuration, timeouts, whatever, i'm not sure.

It can work if the ARP entry, what Ingo called the /32 is created
before you add your /23.

> But once part of it gets broken for whatever reason, i don't see
> how it could possibly automatically recover via the normal RTF_CLONING
> mechanism.

It can't because as you described the /23 will be a better match. And the
reason will be the expiration of the ARP cache.

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