From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 18 10: 1:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fr.ipricot.com (imaps.fr.ipricot.com [195.154.74.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAA537B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from IPricot.com (ablangy.fr.ipricot.com [192.168.31.185]) by mail.fr.ipricot.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9IH0os14581 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:00:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Antoine.Blangy@IPricot.com) X-To: Message-ID: <3BCF0AD5.9D37E5F9@IPricot.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:01:09 +0200 From: Antoine BLANGY Organization: IPricot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ICMP redirect Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I m currently working on ICMP redirect and i read in "TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1 - The protocols", by W Richard Stevens, that 4.4BSD acting as a router checks if "the route being used for outgoing datagram must have been ..., and must not be the router's default route" (page 123). My questions are: - Why the route being used for outgoing datagram can't be the router's default route ? - Is it the same behavor on System V ? Thanks and regards, Antoine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message