Re: my linux does not accept redirects

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There are 2 routers on my network.
> Router A routes to other internal networks
> Router B routes to the Internet
>
> My box has A as the default gateway.
> It should get redirects for the Internet hosts and it does.
> But despite icmp redirects are not filtered and
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/accept_redirects is 1 it does not learn
> the paths and i simply get flooded by the router with redirects about
> every single packet that is sent.
>
> What could be wrong?
>

How would it learn? If everybody is going to set their default
route to your box A, and box A routes internally, then box A needs its
default route to go to the internet-box B.

The existnce of ICMP redirects means that your network is not
configured correctly. They are a symptom. A correctly configured
network does not have ICMP redirects.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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