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From: Liam Helmer <linuxlists@thevenue.org>
Subject: Re: Linux Networking problem...please help..
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:09:39 +0000
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To: Sanjay Arora <skpobox@yahoo.com>
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AFAIK, Windows XP doesn't accept ICMP redirects.
I know that Windows 2000 and NT didn't, so it wouldn't surprise me if XP 
didn't. It's not secure... <g>.

Cheers,
Liam

Sanjay Arora wrote:

>Netmask is 255.255.255.0 on all machines.
>
>Point is that the WinXP machine is being given a
>redirect by the Linux firewall and that is being
>ignored, either due to inability of WinXP or some
>misconfiguration by me.
>
>Sanjay.
>
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