[2609] in linux-net channel archive
Re: ICMP redirects and IP forwarding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Apr 20 16:39:20 1996
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 16:19:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0uAiFk-00002cC@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br>
On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> All the ICMP's are generating useless traffic and congesting the
> backbone, as well as producing overhead on the central router. I see
> two alternatives: a) build static routes to all the local routers
> (there are about 25); b) use gated. This would be unnecessary if linux
> didn't ignore the ICMP.
Are you saying that machines doing IP forwarding are ignoring ICMP
redirects? My linux terminal servers don't ignore them.
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