FC5 RTNETLINK message

[cquisenb]

Hi,

I have two machines with FC5. I had thougth that I had installed FC5 the same way on both machines, with the exception that one had KDE & a few more options. Now, when I issue the "uname -r" command, I see one gives "2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp". The one with out KDE responds with "2.6.17-1.2174_FC5". I know it isn't related to KDE. So, what is the difference?

Also, I have a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 on one machine. This machine has two NIC's. The route-eth0 provides static routes to machines via one of the NIC's, which happens to be eth0. I copied this route-eth0 to my second machine. The second machine is on the same subnet as the first. However, when I issue "/sbin/service network reload", after having copied the route-eth0 file to it, I receive the following:

Bringing up interface eth0: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
RTNETLINK answers: File exists

The response to "netstat -r" is slow.

What does the message about RTNETLINK mean?

Why is the response to "netsat -r" slow?

Thanks,
Curtis

P.S.

Not sure if this was the correct place for this question. :confused:

[cquisenb]

More Info:

The machine with the message about "RTNETLINK" has two NIC's. One, which is on the motherboard, is disabled in BIOS.
The second is an Airlinks card with a chipset of "Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C"", according to the output of "system-config-network-cmd".