North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmprpf]
At 9:22 AM -0400 9/25/06, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >Who thinks it would be a "good idea" to have a knob such that ICMP error messages are always source from a certain IP address on a router? It certainly would beat the alternative of no response at all, but one would hope it wouldn't become common practice since it reduces the information returned (e.g. during a traceroute, you'd lose the sometimes useful information from in-addr about what particular interface was involved). /John
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