[1848] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Static vs dynamic routing from ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Feb 5 07:45:50 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: wantling@wgc.rx.xerox.com
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 07:40:32 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: john@piper.gats.hampton.va.us, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.960202130218.wantling@ramp95.wgc.rx.xerox.com> from "wantling@wgc.rx.xerox.com" at Feb 2, 96 12:32:22 pm
> are used, you might just have to put up with it.There is a penalty to be paid if
> you rely on redirects. That is that certain hosts may either not handle the correctly,
> or may totally ignore them. Specifically, Microsoft software seems not to act on the
> redirects. Linux does.
Linux 1.3.x ignores redirects if its built with IP forwarding (ie it is a
router). This is because a router _does_ have full knowledge of the network
topology and shouldn't respond to such frames. 1.2 always responded.
Alan
