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Unable to delete Stale/Obsolete statc routes in Cisco IOS
Posted on Jul 03, 2008 under Cisco | 4 CommentsTags:Catalyst-3750 Cisco cisco-switch ios IP-Routing routing-table static-route wan
Today, I had to troubleshoot a very peculiar problem on my Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches in two different sites. To cut a long story short, both the sites originally had IPSec VPNs over ADSL internet andtherefore static routes added to pass through their VPN firewalls. However, with a recent WAN migration with leased lines, all traffic moved to the WAN routers.
However, the Static Routes became stale (obsolete) and we were unable to delete the static routes. The routes are not in the running config (no "ip route command in config") and a reboot wouldn't help.
When you do
ciscoswitch# show ip route
Default gateway is 10.10.10.1Host Gateway Last Use Total Uses Interface
192.168.1.1 10.10.10.4 0:00 460318 Vlan1
192.168.1.2 10.10.10.4 0:00 25586 Vlan1
192.168.1.3 10.10.10.4 0:00 25570 Vlan1
The static routes cannot be deleted using
ciscoswitch(config)# no ip route 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.255 10.10.10.4
or
ciscoswitch# clear ip route *
or
ciscoswitch# clear ip cache *
How to resolve?
Finally, the resolution was to disable and enable the "ip routing" service.
Disable IP Routing
ciscoswitch(config)#no ip routing
Enable IP Routing
ciscoswitch(config)#ip routing
This fixed the problem and we are back in business. The stale routing table entries are gone.
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by Mike, on April 29 2009 @ 1:54 pm
Rock! thanks dude
by gaborheja, on May 12 2009 @ 2:47 am
That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
by Jonathan, on December 20 2009 @ 5:35 pm
Perfect, thank you!
A word of warning to others about to try ‘no ip routing’ and ‘ip routing’. Your router will remove any routing-related config lines when you turn off IP routing! So, back up your configuration first – in my case it was a couple of static route definitions, and my OSPF configuration…
by sala, on April 6 2012 @ 9:25 am
It’s all due to ip redirects some where in the network.
Check for ip redirect entries.
ciscoswitch#sh ip redirects
and if you can see entries, clear redirect
ciscoswitch#clear ip redirects
both your routing enties and redirect entries will go.