[128946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Fri Aug 20 20:08:47 2010
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:08:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.vhrgg5qmtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Cc: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>,
nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Ricky Beam wrote:
> I think it's almost universally disabled (by default) everywhere in IPv4
> purely for security (traffic interception.)
Okay, I'll ask again. Exactly how does disabling ICMP redirects on my
router prevent traffic from being intercepted?
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