Should routers send redirects by default?

Brandon Ross bross at pobox.com
Fri Aug 20 22:36:22 UTC 2010


On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jared Mauch wrote:

> The issue is routers typically do this in software requiring a punt and 
> CPU theft from bgp, ospf etc.

You mean like ICMP echo, ICMP can't fragment, ICMP unreachable...?

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