Re: what is "invalid ICMP error" ?
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 04:59:30AM +0000, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My kernel is reporting:
>
> borco-ei kernel: 133.87.240.13 sent an invalid ICMP error to a
> broadcast.
>
> What and how bad is this ?
A machine has told your machine a different route to go through, but it
isn't allowed to do this to a broadcast packet. Check that the netmask on
the router and your machine match (use "ifconfig"). If they do then either
ignore it or complain :-)
At work I get so many of these messages I comment out the offending printk
in /usr/local/src/linux/net/ipv4/icmp.c
Adrian
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