: Using Livingston terminal servers recently gave me the option of
: putting ospf to use on the lan. I have 4 terminal servers and one cisco
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: ICMP redirects sent to the unix servers have become far too frequent now.
: My question is whether or not this should just be considered 'normal',
: or when it becomes 'too much'.
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: Usually when someone mentions ICMP redirect, they also mention 'badly
: configured routers' in the same sentence. I don't see installing
: gated or something comparable on every unix server a true solution either.
Problem is, with OSPF, routed doesn't cut it any longer. Routed uses RIP;
you're using OSPF as your routing protocol. Since the UN*X boxes now only
have their "default route" as the "correct" place to go for your users' IP
addresses, you either (1) need to have the Cisco redistribute the OSPF
routes into RIP, (2) need to have the PM's do both RIP and OSPF, or (3) just
live with it. Since you won't install OSPF on all the unix boxes, they need
to get their routing info from somewhere, or else the router will ICMP
Redirect them away.
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