Re: WARNING: kernel is not very fresh, upgrade is recommended.
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:53, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.
So it's a bug in the 2.4.12 kernel I'm running on my laptop not the 2.2.19
kernel on the machine that was sending the ICMP responses?
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