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.