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From: "Taylor, Grant" <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
Subject: Re: IP sent an invalid ICMP type to a broadcast and
	icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:50:43 -0500
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Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> My kernel complaints himself every second with:
> 
> kernel: XX.XX.XX.XX sent an invalid ICMP type 3, code 1 error to a
> broadcast: 0.0.0.0 on lo
> 
> In the meantime I supressed the messages via  
> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses". 
> 
> Other people solved this problem with 
> 
> iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
> 
> but it won't work here. Does someone have an idea how I could find out
> where the packets are comming from?

Would it be possible to get an output of your routing table?  I'm starting to think that this *might* be a routing issue that somehow your kernel thinks that systems are available via the wrong interface.



Grant. . . .