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Message-Id: <200811101017.56235.remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:17:56 +0200
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" 
	<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
To:	"ext Roman Chertov" <roman@...tabarbaralabs.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24.7 ipv6 send redirect

On Friday 07 November 2008 21:16:16 ext Roman Chertov, you wrote:
>     I need to disable IPv6 ICMP redirect messages.  In the
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/ there is a flag send_redirects which
> disables sending of the redirects in IPv4.  However, this option is not
> present in the /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/.  Did this option get moved
> to another location?  I would prefer to disable the redirects via a flag
> and want to resort to changing the IPv6 forwarding code as the last
> measure.

In my understanding, disabling redirects on an IPv6 router is not allowed by 
the specification (see RFC4294 §4.2).

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Maemo Software, Nokia Devices R&D
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