Thanks Tom

El mar., 25 sept. 2018 a las 17:18, Tom Eastep (<teas...@shorewall.net>)
escribió:

> On 09/25/2018 03:17 AM, Pepe Charli wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In "5.1.11.1  Release Notes"  said:
> >
> > "4)  Now that the route caches have been removed from the kernel, ......"
> >
> > What does this mean?
> >
>
> Originally, the IPv4 stack would cache the result of a route lookup in a
> hash table such that subsequent packets belonging to the same flow could
> be routed based on a simple cache lookup. The cache was removed from the
> IPv4 stack in kernel version 3.6. The IPv6 stack still uses a form of
> caching, but keeps the cached entries in the same tree structure used to
> store the IPv6 routing table. Beginning with kernel version 4.2, only
> routes with PMTU exceptions are cached, which means that the vast
> majority of lookup results are not cached (see
> https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2017-ipv6-route-lookup-linux). You can
> see such cached routes using the command 'ip route ls table cache'.
>
> -Tom
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