Patrick Santucci wrote:
>
> I have another question for you network gurus. :-)
>
> Is there any way to tell our 3000 to ignore gateway redirect messages? We
> have two routers, one for our WAN and one for the Internet. Only the WAN
> router is configured on our HP3000 systems.
>
> When our WAN router (172.18.0.20) loses connectivity with the router at the
> other end of the connection, it tries to reroute the packets through the
> Internet router (172.18.1.80).

Then your network is broken, sir.  The primary router appears to be
functioning correctly; if it loses connectivity with another router, it
drops the link.  But it sounds as if the 2nd router may have a static
default link which is not so dynamic.  And you should never leak RFC1918
private address space like 172.18.x.x onto the public network anyway.
If the second router cannot reach your WAN, at least one of your routers
is leaking route advertisements that it cannot support (which is the
broken part).

Granted that the 3000 had problems when the defualt gateways fail, but
when it receives a redirect it get's cached into your gateway pool,
which isn't 100% kosher either.

Jeff

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