Hi Terry
That email would be much appreciated here - fortunately, the other router I've
built I did some time ago and is hence still on a 2.0 kernel :-))
I've been reading all the iproute2 stuff but so far not identified anything
that relates specifically to this problem.
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote:
>
> I've been pursuing this exact problem on a machine since shortly after
> 2.2 was released. It is *definitely* a behaviour that was introduced
> with the 2.2 kernel. I strongly suspect that what the kernel is wanting
> to do is to send an ICMP redirect, but that for some reason it isn't
> able to do that.
>
> I'm going to draft an email to Alexey and see if he can shed some light
> on it. I think it might be an artefact of him cleaning the IP routing
> code at some point. In every network I know of, other than AX.25, the
> behaviour we want would be considered broken, unfortunately it's
> absolutely necessary for us.
>
> Terry
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