> Wait a minute, I did not notice you were running heartbeat. It changes > a lot of things. It's taking the IP over and depending on whether it's > announcing gratuitous ARPs on fail-over and if other equipemnts accept > them, it is possible that you have to wait for a cache to expire somwhere. > Tcpdump will show that a lot better (please get the full captures, not just > screen dumps, as we'll have to dig into the MAC addresses and correlate > them with ARP traffic).
Depending on the network topology, u could ping after the heartbeat taken over the ip to the routers from that ip. That solve for us a problem for long term arp caches sometimes.