forwarding icmp redirects.

Barney Wolff barney at databus.com
Thu Dec 29 14:27:07 PST 2005


On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:04:58PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> I know WE don't generate non local icmp redirects but I notice that we
> would forward them should someone else (malicious or not) generate them.. 
> I think that we possibly should check for them in our forwarding code..
> (of course you can stop them with the firewall but..)

Why this particular one out of the semi-infinite set of malicious packets?

If I had to pick one, I'd drop packets arriving with a source IP that we
think is one of ours.

But in general I think FreeBSD should obey RFCs and match the good
behavior of widely used commercial routers.

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