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
dhcp lease "/sbin/pump --status" to help make more sense of it.
I noticed that the "ping" in RH7.0 seems to be printing out this redirect
message where I hadn't noticed it before. Maybe it is just more verbose?
Martin Visser
Technology Consultant - Compaq Global Services
Compaq Computer Australia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2001 7:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] ICMP redirects.
>
>
> When I connect my laptop to my LAN I use a server to give it a
> address via DHCP. Problem is that it gets ICMP redirect packets
> from the machine.
>
> 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.
>
> It works fine on another network where the DHCP server is on a
> windows machine and other machines on my my network, such as my
> kids windows machine, works fine.
>
> The linux machine is gettings its routing mucked up. Any ideas
> how to fix it?
>
> Rodos
>
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