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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
