=?Windows-1252?Q?Ari_Sigur=F0sson?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hello, I recentrly upgraded my kernel to 2.4.2, I have two network card on >my debian 2.2 system, and I am using ip_forwarding for a local subnet. > >before I updated to 2.4.1 I never saw this message, >2.4.1 showed this sometimes, >but now at 2.4.2 I am getting this at regular intervals >can anyone tell me what this means? > >x.x.x.x sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast? > >the ip is a remote computer, a gateway or something?
It's some other broken computer. You can ignore it with 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_broken_error_responses' - in fact, there's a line in the default /etc/sysctl.conf that you can uncomment to cause this to be set at boot-time. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]