[ILUG] ICMP redirect and routing question

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Fri Apr 2 10:47:28 IST 2004


On Friday 2 April 2004, nickm at go2.ie (Nick Murtagh) wrote:

>Niall O Broin wrote:
>> [root at smooth1 root]# tcpdump host 192.168.1.10
>> tcpdump: listening on eth0
>> 10:14:07.744043 192.168.1.10 > somebox.somehost.com: icmp: echo
request
>
>Silly question: is there any chance the ICMP redirects are being
>firewalled somewhere?

No - as you saw in that tcpdump, smooth doesn't even send an ICMP
redirect to be firewalled :-(


Niall



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