Re: ICMP redirects never followed in 2.0.30?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@lap.noris.de)
26 Aug 1997 19:45:11 +0200

Ivan Nejgebauer <ian@uns.ns.ac.yu> writes:
> It seems that plain 2.0.30 will never accept an ICMP redirect. This
> is from net/ipv4/icmp.c, function icmp_redirect():
>
Duh. You're right.

> CONFIG_IP_DUMB_ROUTER doesn't appear anywhere else in the kernel tree,
> so the net effect is that redirects are ignored if IP forwarding is
> disabled, BUT nothing happens if it's enabled. Is this fixed in
> pre-2.0.31-x?

In pre-7, the code is still there... I just tossed the #if conditionals.

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Matthias Urlichs