ICMP Redirect on Cisco IOS

Hello Sutandra

Yes it will get the message. It doesn’t matter that the “host” is actually a router. The behaviour of the ICMP protocol will be the same for either a PC or a router.

Hmm, that is quite interesting. My hunch is that traceroute sends the first ICMP packet with a TTL of 1 to the gateway of 192.168.12.1, which is the first response we see. Then R1 sends a redirect back to the host informing it of the “better” gateway. The host sends an ICMP packet with a maximum TTL with the new gateway to see if it gets a response which it does. It then proceeds to continue the trace using increasing TTLs to R2 and R3.

This is just a hunch, but a wireshark trace of something like this would be very beneficial… I suggest you give it a try and share your results.

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz

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