Yea the stuff that sometimes is done in hw and sometimes in sw and causes 
varying pain. You may find the discussion interesting to read if you feel 
redirects are "ok" or tolerable. 

If vendors can't expose their defaults they really should not be enabling these 
things as it causes trouble. 

I've had problems with both v4 and v6 redirects. Perhaps you have not. 

Jared Mauch

On Aug 20, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Brandon Ross <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
>> The issue is routers typically do this in software requiring a punt and CPU 
>> theft from bgp, ospf etc.
> 
> You mean like ICMP echo, ICMP can't fragment, ICMP unreachable...?
> 
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