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Re: Should routers send redirects by default?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Fri Aug 20 18:38:00 2010

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:36:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <1E8FD27F-3952-45A7-A025-C417314EC742@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jared Mauch wrote:

> The issue is routers typically do this in software requiring a punt and 
> CPU theft from bgp, ospf etc.

You mean like ICMP echo, ICMP can't fragment, ICMP unreachable...?

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