25 Aug
2010
25 Aug
'10
2:12 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Stephen Stuart wrote:
Once upon a time
I think the question is what sensible defaults should be. In my environment we turn off proxy-arp and redirects, and it is my firm belief that this is actually what should be the default. In my opinion: A host SHOULD support listening to redirects and MUST have a knob to turn off this listening if implemented. A router MUST have redirects off as default but MUST support a knob turning them on and when sending a redirect it MUST forward the packet that generated the redirect. I know most of the above is completely against current standards, but for me these are more in tune with todays reality in networking as I see them. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se