Hi, after upgrading from 122 to 129, I noticed something happening that wasnt before.
Obviously my ADSL router is being stupid, but I think that opensolaris should kinda be smart enough to realise this isnt valid... anyway I have my opensolaris file server running, and a number of other hosts on my lan. If I turn off one of the other machines, then ping it from the opensolaris box, the router responds with this rubbish (note that you dont see this in 122): > ping activity ICMP Host redirect from gateway router (192.168.1.254) to activity (192.168.1.70) for activity (192.168.1.70) Obviously this isnt a valid redirect, but then look what gets added to my routing table (from netstat -r): Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface -------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- --------- activity activity UHD 1 0 Ideally, any ICMP redirect for hosts on the same LAN should probably be ignored, and ICMP redirect which has the same dest and gateway should probably be ignored. Possibly also before it gets added to the routing table permanently maybe it should be verified? For now I think I'll disable ICMP redirects for my solaris box, it isnt a router so it doesnt need to know about it, but in future maybe it could be smarter? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
