[128958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yann GAUTERON)
Sat Aug 21 02:11:21 2010
In-Reply-To: <B003B2B2-59F8-4F03-9A25-3E1E90850E99@puck.nether.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:11:05 +0200
From: Yann GAUTERON <yann.gauteron@gmail.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2010/8/20 Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
>
> Personally (and as the instigator in the ipv6/6man discussion) if the
> vendors could be trusted to expose their default settings in their
> configs, i would find a default of ON to be more acceptable. As their
> track-record is poor, and the harm has been realized in the network we
> operate (at least), I am advocating that as a matter of policy enabling
> redirects not be a default-on policy. If people want to hang themselves
> that's their problem, but at least they won't come with a hidden noose
> around their neck.
>
On Cisco routers (at least some of them), have you tried the command
show running-config all
This command displays all configuration, including hidden default values.
This may help when this command is present.
Don't know about other vendors.
Yann
