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Re: WARNING: kernel is not very fresh, upgrade is recommended.



Previously Russell Coker wrote:
> iputils-ping has suddenly started giving me such messages when it receives 
> Destination Host Unreachable messages from a router running 2.2.19.
> 
> Why is it doing this?

It looks like a kernel bug. ping sets van icmp filter so it will
only receive source quence, redirect and echo reply icmp packets
but it still received another icmp packet.

Wichert.

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