[129071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Aug 25 01:18:27 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Z4_4DWVF2h-x2hjbto091DUVJgo4-je=0rUQe@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:18:15 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:32 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Christopher Morrow
> <christopher.morrow@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Polling a little bit here, there's an active discussion going on
>> 6man@ietf about whether or not v6 routers should:
>> =A0o be required to implement ip redirect functions (icmpv6 redirect)
>> =A0o be sending these by default
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> If you don't mind, I'd like to ask a similar question whose answers
> might be instructive for the question you asked:
sure :) (other folks should also chime in, or I thought that was the
spirit of your question...)
>
> Forgetting all of the theoretical constructs for a moment, has anyone
> here personally encountered an operational scenario in which ICMP
> redirects solved a problem for you that you would otherwise have found
> difficult or intransigent? Without naming names, would you describe
> the scenario's details, explain the problem that would have existed
> absent redirects and explain how redirects solved it for you?
I've never had redirects solve a problem for me.
