[162262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Apr 8 01:36:20 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <121192.1365385644@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 22:32:48 -0700
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 7, 2013, at 18:47 , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:25:30 -0700, Owen DeLong said:
>=20
>>> Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, =
netmask,
>>> and routes actually match the reality of your network configuration.
>=20
>> They also cover the case where there are two (or more) routers on the
>> network and you don't want to have to configure more specific routes
>> on all your workstations.
>=20
> As I said - if your config (including routes) matches your network =
reality.
> Note that the rest of your comment addresses the case where your =
initial config
> doesn't match reality...
>=20
Not true. Reality is that the default router configured on the hosts is =
capable
of getting the packets delivered. It's not optimal, but it is reality.
Owen
