Subject: Re: peculiar ICMP redirects?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: None <ww@styx.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/23/2005 14:51:25
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:44:31PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> But the machine isn't .74; it's .73.  So it (correctly) tries to
> forward the packet.  The problem is, it ends up "forwarding" it out the
> route corresponding to the ARP entry, which as you quite correctly
> point out above should be used only for answering ARP requests, not for
> routing packets.  Once it's made that mistake, the rest all follows
> correctly.

Ok, I understand now. In any case, I am reasonably sure that
adding host routes as I suggested will "fix" the problem, at
least as a stopgap.

-w

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