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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what about my routing here ...
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:26:44
Message-Id: 52564898.2040105@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what about my routing here ... by Adam Carter
1 Am 10.10.2013 06:45, schrieb Adam Carter:
2 > There might have been a icmp redirect from 10.96.25.1 telling ipfire that
3 > there's a better way to get to that network, and its via 10.96.25.2.
4 >
5 > On my system it seems to be off by default (I havent set it in
6 > /etc/sysctl.conf) which makes sense as redirects can be used for MITM
7 > attacks.
8 > $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_redirects
9 > 0
10
11 So I would have to check that on the router? Or both? Just will check
12 both, sure ...
13
14 Could this lead to mislead keepalive packets from libvirtd?
15 Maybe I should ask their network-admins for more details ... huge
16 company, unknown structures ;-)
17
18 Thanks, Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] what about my routing here ... Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>