Recently we upgraded our old
FreeBSD firewall to a Cisco ASA5520 and I noticed that ASA does not
generate ICMP Redirects if it is used as the "default router" or
gateway for a network.
This
is a problem in any network that has multiple subnets connected by
multiple routers and the ASA is configured as the default router. The
obvious solution is to add a default route to the firewall on your
routers and set the "default gateway" on your hosts to the router but
in my case the routers were really old with a horrible pps (packets per
seconds) processing rate and didn't want to give them any more work
than they already had. |