From: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:25:53 +0200
> Revert the commit e2ca690b657f ("ipv4/icmp: redirect messages
> can use the ingress daddr as source"), which tried to introduce a more
> suitable behaviour for ICMP redirect messages generated by VRRP routers.
> However RFC 5798 section 8.1.1 states:
>
> The IPv4 source address of an ICMP redirect should be the address
> that the end-host used when making its next-hop routing decision.
>
> while said commit used the generating packet destination
> address, which do not match the above and in most cases leads to
> no redirect packets to be generated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks.
I honestly still didn't like the change at all, but begrudgedly applied
it hoping to avoid people saying crap like "Linux refuses to support VRRP"...
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