Mix hosts and routers on a subnet?

Hi

I've always avoided having routers exchange routing updates on a subnet that carries hosts. For one thing it avoids the ICMP redirect issues. These, however, can be turned off at the router. While it still feels wrong I can't think of a simple billy-basic technical reason to avoid the sharing of a subnet. There must be one....?

Can anyone advise either to mix them (hosts and routers) or a good reason not to do so?

-- TIA, James

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Posted 5 years ago by James Harris in Cisco Systems

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