Subject: 18. I'm seeing really odd routing table entries. Why?

Marco S Hyman reports with some glee:
> Solved!  The bogus routes are a result of a bug which sometimes shows
> up processing ICMP redirects.  If your unit never sees a redirect you'll
> never see the bogus routes.  Fixed in the next release.  [4.5 -ddl]
>
> Many will say that the Pipeline is a router and should never pay attention
> to redirects.  Others will insist that to work in their environment the
> Pipeline must support redirects.  To try to please both a new option
> is being added.  The next release will add this to the ethernet
> mod config:
>
>  ICMP Redirects=Accept/Ignore

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