Bug 57071

Summary:	icmp redirects are being ignored
Product:	Networking	Reporter:	Per Jessen (per)
Component:	IPV4	Assignee:	Stephen Hemminger (stephen)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.7.1	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Per Jessen 2013-04-24 09:59:08 UTC

We operate a transparent web-cache which uses ICMP redirects to divert clients to the cache.  With kernel 3.7.1 (witnessed in installation systems for openSUSE 12.3 and Ubuntu 13.04), ICMP redirects appear to be ignored. Same behaviour seen in 3.8.6.

See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814510

Please let me know which kind of diagnostics you require.