From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: "kernel:nf_ct_icmp: bad HW ICMP checksum" too noisy Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:34:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4BC723EE.9090504@trash.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Benny Amorsen Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:65404 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751749Ab0DOOe1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:34:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Benny Amorsen wrote: > Would it be possible to lower the log level of "kernel:nf_ct_icmp: bad > HW ICMP checksum" so that they don't show up on the console? Obviously I > could configure rsyslog to never send anything to the console, but then > I might miss something which is actually critical. Yeah, I guess defaulting to KERN_EMERG wasn't the best choice :) I'll lower it to something reasonable - I guess KERN_NOTICE would be appropriate. > It's obviously nice to know about corrupted ICMP on a controlled LAN, > but on the open Internet you can't really do anything about it. You should only see that message when nf_conntrack_log_invalid is active.