In trying to diagnose a weird network problem (see earlier msgs to the lists), I noticed that I'm sometimes getting redirects in responses to my pings. The ones I've seen so far seem beneficial, but if they weren't how would I know?
How do you see the effect of an accepted ICMP redirect? The routing table (as reflected by netstat -eern, netstat -arn, route -n, or ip route) does not seem to change, but there is very definitely a change to routing. I received an ICMP redirect message for a host from my default gateway when pinging it. Subsequent pings go through the gateway the redirect sent me to, as shown by a tcpdump. The mac address of the next hop is now the new gateway. But how do I show that? How do I see what other redirects may be in effect? When do these redirects time out (assuming they do)? What if the gateway I'm redirected to is dead? -- Trever Furnish, tgfurnish at herff-jones.com, 317.329.3397 x3519 Unix Administrator, Herff-Jones, Inc. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
