From owner-freebsd-net Tue May 18 15:18:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.bc.home.com (ha1.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com [24.2.10.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7BF14D72 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 15:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pangolin@home.com) Received: from cr1003333-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com ([24.113.51.240]) by mail.rdc1.bc.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with ESMTP id <19990518221829.CSIZ24551.mail.rdc1.bc.home.com@cr1003333-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com> for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 15:18:29 -0700 Content-Length: 723 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:18:29 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: Jonathan Hanna Organization: Pangolin Systems From: Jonathan Hanna To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Redirects and expire times Message-Id: <19990518221829.CSIZ24551.mail.rdc1.bc.home.com@cr1003333-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What is the proper way of handling ICMP redirects? I expected host routes to be added with an expire time, but apparently they are permanent. I found one old reference to this, but no reply. > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:09:15 -0600 (CST) > From: Scott Mace > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Redirects and expire times... > Message-ID: <199603112109.PAA15480@metal.ops.neosoft.com> > > I think it is a bug to add a host route after receiving a ICMP redirect > and NOT having any expire set on the route. If you have a default routed > host in a complex topology you can get into trouble when the topology changes. > > Scott Jonathan Hanna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message