What problems are expected from disabling ICMP redirects

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Issue

A security hardening exercise has suggested that the tunables send_redirects and secure_redirects be set to the disabled value. What problems might be expected to arise as a result of doing this?

Environment

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions
IP-based networking

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