Re: Static vs dynamic routing from ISP
Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Mon, 5 Feb 1996 07:40:32 +0000 (GMT)
> are used, you might just have to put up with it.There is a penalty to be paid if
> you rely on redirects. That is that certain hosts may either not handle the correctly,
> or may totally ignore them. Specifically, Microsoft software seems not to act on the
> redirects. Linux does.
Linux 1.3.x ignores redirects if its built with IP forwarding (ie it is a
router). This is because a router _does_ have full knowledge of the network
topology and shouldn't respond to such frames. 1.2 always responded.
Alan