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From: "Taylor, Grant" <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: IP sent an invalid ICMP type to a broadcast and icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 01:09:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <427EFE8B.4030009@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050507212628.6fd43793@mikejones.ghb.fh-furtwangen.de>

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?

Can we get an iptables-save output as well as an ifconfig -a?  I'm betting that something is preventing traffic from flowing to or from your lo interface.



Grant. . . .


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-09  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-07 19:26 IP sent an invalid ICMP type to a broadcast and icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses Sebastian Siewior
2005-05-09  6:09 ` Taylor, Grant [this message]
2005-05-10 13:08   ` Sebastian Siewior
2005-05-12  6:08     ` Taylor, Grant
2005-05-12  6:27       ` Sebastian Siewior
2005-05-09 15:37 ` Jason Opperisano
2005-05-12  6:50 ` Taylor, Grant
2005-05-12  7:05   ` Sebastian Siewior
2005-05-16  1:36 ` Taylor, Grant

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