IPFW2 versrcreach update

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Wed Jul 21 10:54:13 PDT 2004


James wrote:

>
>uRPF should not emit an ICMP when it drops a -reject route. Even with 
>ip unreachables, Cisco won't emit ICMP when uRPF is killing a packet. The source
>that triggered uRPF drop condition cannot be trusted as it may have spoofed the
>packet.
>
>  
>
Where would the ICMP go anyway because you either don´t have a route to 
where you would point the packet to or the route points to null.

Pete




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