Hello Andrew & Marek, Try this as a shutdown of the interface
route del -net(or host... as nessary)
ifconfig 'device' 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ifconfig 'device' down
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It happened to me !, never found the time to investigate it. Its obvious
> flaw in Kernel design.
> One way to go around it tho is to reassign a new address to that same
> interface (virtual interface).
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > If you have a dual-homed host and ifdown one of its interfaces, Linux
> > (2.3.99) continues to generate arp replies on behalf of the downed
> > interface's IP address. It does so until the device is actually
> > unregistered.
> > The user-visible effect of this is that the downed interface's IP
> > address continues to appear on the network until ten minutes later when
> > cron reaps the driver module.
> > Is there a reason for this behaviour?
> > I would have thought that downing an interface should imediately make
> > its IP address disappear from the network. If an admin were to down an
> > interface, then walk over to another machine and bring up an interface
> > with the same IP address, sticky things could happen.
> > --
> > -akpm-
> > -
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