[128942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Aug 20 19:16:07 2010
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.1008201836000.325@host-130-128-1-44.enet.interop.net>
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:16:08 -0400
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yea the stuff that sometimes is done in hw and sometimes in sw and causes va=
rying pain. You may find the discussion interesting to read if you feel redi=
rects are "ok" or tolerable.=20
If vendors can't expose their defaults they really should not be enabling th=
ese things as it causes trouble.=20
I've had problems with both v4 and v6 redirects. Perhaps you have not.=20
Jared Mauch
On Aug 20, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jared Mauch wrote:
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>> The issue is routers typically do this in software requiring a punt and C=
PU theft from bgp, ospf etc.
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> You mean like ICMP echo, ICMP can't fragment, ICMP unreachable...?
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