From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 15:10:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA22158 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts18-142.indigo.ie [194.125.134.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA22137 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA09269 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:32:46 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:25:04 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Does FBSD 2.1 honour ICMP redirects? To: FreeBSD Support Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ---