Re: invalid ICMP error to a broadcast..

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ari_Sigur=F0sson?= <ari@solver.is> wrote:

>> It's some other broken computer. You can ignore it with 'echo 1 >
>> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_broken_error_responses' - in fact,
>> there's a line in the default /etc/sysctl.conf that you can uncomment to
>> cause this to be set at boot-time.
>
>thanks,
>but I don't have /etc/sysctl.conf

Hmm, should be in the procps package; it seems to be there on a 2.2 box
at work ...

>or the ignore_broken file :/

Sorry, typo on my part. I meant 'echo 1 >
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses'.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]