I agree that ping in rh7.0 is more verbose. It shows the times in msec
or in usec where relevant. It also now shows min/avg/max/mdev
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Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com
"...well, it worked before _you_ touched
ICMP Redirects are a normal occurence when you have a single default
gateway/router configured and there are other accessible routers. If the
default router believes you should you use a more direct next hop router, it
will let you know. You want to dump out your route table ("netstat -r") and
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:14:54PM +1100, Rodos wrote:
When I do a ping it shows a response of "Redirect Host(New nexthop:"
and then the address of the machine which I am usually trying to
ping.
If you're on hosta and you're trying to ping hostb, and you get a
message saying Redirect
If you run:
find /proc -name \*redirect\*
then you will come up with a swag of switches that can control redirects
in Linux.
I'm not to certain which one you want but you might try:
echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/send_redirects
or you could add:
net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 0
