Re: Bug#2105: console error messages "Source Route Failed."

["James D. Freels" <fea@fea.rrd.ornl.gov>]

>
>It is a deliberatly missing feature. In fact, you can turn it on
>in newer kernels if you want during compilation. I would not
>do that as it opens up a huge IP level security hole.
>
>If you want to know more about this read up on security, routers,
>firewalls and low level IP amd ICMP.
>
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Well, if it's nothing to worry about, that is good!  However, is there
a way to "hide" these messages to keep them from printing to my
console? (i.e. >/dev/null for example)  I am not planning on upgrading
to the development tree until forced or a new release.

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