On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 11:16, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 10:39 AM 5/22/02 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote:
> >[...]
> >I think you can stop logging of TOS redirects in network.config by
> >changing the option below to yes. This may open up a possible security
> >hole.
> >
> >ALLIF_ACCEPT_REDIRECTS=NO
> 
> If this changes the kernel flag I think it does, then it does more than 
> suppress logging. It tells the kernel to change its substantive behavior, 
> to accept the actual redirect instructions.

Ray,
You're correct.
s/stop logging of TOS/allow icmp/

> I'm very rusty on this stuff, 
> but I bet there was some spoofing problem that caused most of the world ... 
> with this ISP an exception ... to move away from using redirects, at least 
> for updating edge routers.

That's my fuzzy recollection of the situation also.

-- 
Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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