[129074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Aug 25 06:02:09 2010
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:01:50 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1008250807480.8562@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> A host SHOULD support listening to redirects and MUST have a knob to
> turn off this listening if implemented. A router MUST have redirects
> off as default but MUST support a knob turning them on and when
> sending a redirect it MUST forward the packet that generated the
> redirect.
wfm
randy
