[92562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Sep 25 20:47:33 2006
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:45:49 -0400
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 9:22 AM -0400 9/25/06, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
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>Who thinks it would be a "good idea" to have a knob such that ICMP error messages are always source from a certain IP address on a router?
It certainly would beat the alternative of no response at all,
but one would hope it wouldn't become common practice
since it reduces the information returned (e.g. during a
traceroute, you'd lose the sometimes useful information
from in-addr about what particular interface was involved).
/John
