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Disable ICMP Redirect if you have overlapped IP interfaces on ports
that are not configured to use 802.1Q VLAN tagging. Doing so
provides better routing performance between the overlapped subnets.
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If you have two interfaces that belong to different VLANs that share a
given port and you want to completely disable ICMP redirects for that
port, disable the redirects for
each interface that shares that port. If
you disable ICMP Redirect for only one interface and enable it for the
other, you may not get the performance improvement that you want.
Example Figure 57 shows how ICMP Redirect works.
Figure 57
ICMP Redirect Example
150.101.117.253
(255.255.255.0)
150.101.119.2
150.101.117.2
(255.255.255.0)
System 1
(ICMP redirect
enabled)
System 2
Host A
150.101.117.254
(255.255.255.0)
1
= Host A pings 150.101.119.2
3
= ICMP redirect on System 1 returns information about
the better route (150.101.117.253) to Host A. Host A
puts the better route into its routing table.
= System 1 routes the request to the correct address
1
3
2
2
4
= Second ping from Host A goes directly to 150.101.119.2
4
Default Gateway for Host A = 150.101.117.254