Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:25:04 BST From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie> To: FreeBSD Support <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Does FBSD 2.1 honour ICMP redirects? Message-ID: <ECS9608192104A@NetworX.ie>
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I bring up a PPP link between my FreeBSD 2.1R machine and my ISP. I deliberately do not install the correct gateway in the default route. Instead I tell pppd to install the other end of the PPP link as the default route (statement "defaultroute" in /etc/ppp/options). All is okay so far. Now, when I ping a machine, for every echo request which I generate, I get a redirect from the host at the other end of the PPP link. Why doesn't FreeBSD honour the redirects and start forwarding the datagrams to the new host? I would expect to see only one redirect; not one for every packet I send. Mike <mike@NetworX.ie> ---
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