Hey All, Anycast related. Is this normal behavior? Whats the workaround? Why havent I run into this before? 192.168.76.1 is a HSRP address on a ring of routers transiting a private non routed vlan to the service addresses hosted on systems that have independent management interfaces. Best, Joe root@debian31:~# ifconfig lo:0 lo:0 Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:209.54.140.64 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 root@debian31:~# ip rule list 0: from all lookup local 32764: from 209.54.140.0/24 lookup pbr1-exit 32765: from 216.222.144.16/28 lookup pbr1-exit 32766: from all lookup main 32767: from all lookup default root@debian31:~# ip route list table pbr1-exit default via 192.168.76.1 dev eth1 192.168.34.0/24 dev eth1 scope link src 192.168.76.16 192.168.76.0/24 dev eth1 scope link src 192.168.76.16 root@debian31:~# tcpdump -i eth1 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 11:08:09.053943 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.76.1 tell 209.54.140.64, length 28 11:08:10.035126 IP noc08rt08.noc08.chl.net > 209.54.140.64: ICMP echo request, id 517, seq 0, length 80 11:08:10.051276 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.76.1 tell 209.54.140.64, length 28 11:08:11.052548 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.76.1 tell 209.54.140.64, length 28 11:08:12.035964 IP noc08rt08.noc08.chl.net > 209.54.140.64: ICMP echo request, id 517, seq 1, length 80 ^C root@debian31:~# ip neigh fe80::230:71ff:fe3b:6808 dev eth0 lladdr 00:30:71:3b:68:08 router STALE 192.168.76.1 dev eth1 FAILED 192.168.34.254 dev eth0 lladdr 00:11:93:04:7a:1b DELAY 192.168.34.48 dev eth0 lladdr 00:0c:29:fd:64:8a STALE root@debian31:~# uname -a Linux debian31 3.2.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Tue Jan 24 06:09:30 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux root@debian31:~# ping 192.168.76.1 PING 192.168.76.1 (192.168.76.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.76.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=255 time=2.95 ms ^C --- 192.168.76.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.952/2.952/2.952/0.000 ms root@debian31:~# ip neigh fe80::230:71ff:fe3b:6808 dev eth0 lladdr 00:30:71:3b:68:08 router STALE 192.168.76.1 dev eth1 lladdr 00:00:0c:9f:f0:01 REACHABLE 192.168.34.254 dev eth0 lladdr 00:11:93:04:7a:1b REACHABLE 192.168.34.48 dev eth0 lladdr 00:0c:29:fd:64:8a STALE 192.168.76.2 dev eth1 lladdr 00:b0:4a:9e:54:00 STALE root@debian31:~# !tcp tcpdump -i eth1 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 11:12:22.476479 IP noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net > 209.54.140.64: ICMP echo request, id 518, seq 0, length 80 11:12:22.476572 IP 209.54.140.64 > noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net: ICMP echo reply, id 518, seq 0, length 80 11:12:22.479495 IP noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net > 209.54.140.64: ICMP echo request, id 518, seq 1, length 80 11:12:22.479533 IP 209.54.140.64 > noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net: ICMP echo reply, id 518, seq 1, length 80 11:12:22.484346 IP noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net > 209.54.140.64: ICMP echo request, id 518, seq 2, length 80 11:12:22.484392 IP 209.54.140.64 > noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net: ICMP echo reply, id 518, seq 2, length 80 11:12:22.487670 IP noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net > 209.54.140.64: ICMP echo request, id 518, seq 3, length 80 11:12:22.487705 IP 209.54.140.64 > noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net: ICMP echo reply, id 518, seq 3, length 80 11:12:22.490639 IP noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net > 209.54.140.64: ICMP echo request, id 518, seq 4, length 80 11:12:22.490675 IP 209.54.140.64 > noc08rt08-l0.noc08.chl.net: ICMP echo reply, id 518, seq 4, length 80 ^C