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Major Hayden 716232cef6 [Docs] Securing sysctl configurations 
This patch provides documentation for:

  https://review.openstack.org/397877

Implements: blueprint security-rhel7-stig
Change-Id: I1719ccb5b9818f6477e515cba6b9d1d9b29e2ab4
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---id: RHEL-07-040420 status: implemented tag: kernel ---

The tasks in this role set net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects and net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects to 0 by default. This prevents a system from sending IPv4 ICMP redirect packets on all new and existing interfaces.

Deployers can opt out of this change by setting the following Ansible variable:

security_disallow_icmp_redirects: no