If you are reading this the reason could be that you are hit by the “Linux ARP flux” problem. Linux answers ARP requests on wrong and unassociated interfaces per default. This leads to the following two problems:
ARP requests for the loopback alias address are answered on the HW interfaces (even if NOARP on lo0:1 is set). Since loopback aliases are required for DSR setups this problem is very common (but easy to fix fortunately).
If the machine is connected twice to the same switch (e.g. with eth0 and eth1) eth2 may answer ARP requests for the address on eth1 and vice versa in a race condition manner (confusing almost everything).
This can be prevented by specific arp kernel settings. Take a look here for additional information about the nature of the problem (and other solutions): ARP flux.
To fix that generally (and reboot safe) we recommend to include the following lines into /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore=1 net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce=2
The following commands may be used to change the settings interactively during runtime:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_ignore # echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_announce