Please see the following 3 links, and then look at the
attached capture.
I've seen it in the past with a correct "Redirect for Host," but now on multiple machines with various PC OSes, I'm seeing something that RFC 1812 PROHIBITED (Redirect for Network). I've eliminated OSes, NICs, and drivers. Could this be a bug in a version of Wireshark?
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/195686
0 Redirected datagrams for the network (obsolete).
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_ICMPv4RedirectMessages-2.htm
Note: One problem with Redirects for whole networks is that the network
specification may be ambiguous in an environment where subnetting or
classless addressing are used. For this reason, the use of Code values 0
and 2 was prohibited by RFC 1812; they are considered obsolete on the
modern Internet.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1812.txt
Redirected datagrams for the network
5.2.7.2 Redirect
The ICMP Redirect message is generated to inform a local host the it
should use a different next hop router for a certain class of
traffic.
Routers MUST NOT generate the Redirect for Network or Redirect for
Network and Type of Service messages (Codes 0 and 2) specified in
Baker Standards Track [Page 82]
RFC 1812 Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers June 1995
[INTERNET:8]. Routers MUST be able to generate the Redirect for Host
message (Code 1) and SHOULD be able to generate the Redirect for Type
of Service and Host message (Code 3) specified in [INTERNET:8].
DISCUSSION
If the directly connected network is not subnetted (in the
classical sense), a router can normally generate a network
Redirect that applies to all hosts on a specified remote network.
Using a network rather than a host Redirect may economize slightly
on network traffic and on host routing table storage. However,
the savings are not significant, and subnets create an ambiguity
about the subnet mask to be used to interpret a network Redirect.
In a CIDR environment, it is difficult to specify precisely the
cases in which network Redirects can be used. Therefore, routers
must send only host (or host and type of service) Redirects.
Jonathan S. Weissman
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