From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 11:50:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8B437B401 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1773C43F3F for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:50:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h69IoSat078155 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:50:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:50:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: FreeBSD Questions List Message-ID: <20030709185028.GK39506@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030709184027.GD90359@kongemord.krig.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030709184027.GD90359@kongemord.krig.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: ICMP redirect X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:50:30 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 09), Bob Hall said: > This isn't critical, but I'm wondering if someone can tell me what is > going on here. > > I did > traceroute 217.20.241.75 > and got several of the following on ttyv0, which displays kernel and > other messages: > icmp redirect from 213.232.120.198: 217.20.241.75 => 213.232.120.194 > > I'm guessing that the router at 213.232.120.198 is redirecting ICMP > packets, but why is this information showing up on the tty that > handles internal messages? You probably have the net.inet.icmp.log_redirect sysctl set to 1. It defaults to 0. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com