Bug 57071 - icmp redirects are being ignored
Summary: icmp redirects are being ignored
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Networking
Classification: Unclassified
Component: IPV4 (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: Stephen Hemminger
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Reported: 2013-04-24 09:59 UTC by Per Jessen
Modified: 2013-11-13 20:57 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 3.7.1
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Regression: No
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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

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