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Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:44:52 -0500
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
As I stated in the 6man discussion, I prefer routers to by default not send redirects. We do that in our configuration template.
I often turn them off, but I'm not sure why. If they aren't needed, generally they won't be issued anyways (p2p links, router only segments, etc). About the only case where they might be issued and I don't want them is in policy routing situations. In host based broadcast domains, I usually want them to limit the amount of traffic redirection I need to do.
Jack
Current thread:
- Should routers send redirects by default? Christopher Morrow (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jack Bates (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jack Bates (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Christopher Morrow (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Dobbins, Roland (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Butch Evans (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jared Mauch (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Butch Evans (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Butch Evans (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Brandon Ross (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jared Mauch (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Brandon Ross (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jared Mauch (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jack Bates (Aug 20)