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Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
From: Brandon Ross <bross () pobox com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:08:34 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Ricky Beam wrote:
I think it's almost universally disabled (by default) everywhere in IPv4 purely for security (traffic interception.)
Okay, I'll ask again. Exactly how does disabling ICMP redirects on my router prevent traffic from being intercepted?
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Current thread:
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default?, (continued)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Owen DeLong (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jared Mauch (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? James Hess (Aug 25)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Butch Evans (Aug 25)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Christopher Morrow (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Yann GAUTERON (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jared Mauch (Aug 21)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Christopher Morrow (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Brandon Ross (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Leen Besselink (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Eric J. Katanich (Aug 20)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jack Bates (Aug 21)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Jared Mauch (Aug 21)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Mark Smith (Aug 21)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Mark Smith (Aug 21)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Ricky Beam (Aug 23)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? David W. Hankins (Aug 24)
- Re: Should routers send redirects by default? Mark Smith (Aug 24)