Re: what's this ?

A.N.Kuznetsov (kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:25:51 +0300


In article <m0vwTJ5-0005xtC@penny.ik5pvx.ampr.org> you wrote:
: I've seen several of these messages:

: martian source 8fd0862c for b1d0862c, dev eth0
: ll header: 00 a0 24 dd 39 11 02 60 8c 4a ee 8e 08 00

: what's it? On the other end of the ethernet link there is a jnos box.
: linux version is 2.1.26.

It means that IP packet with source 44.140.208.143 and destination
44.140.208.177 was not recognized as valid and was dropped.
ll header: ... is dump of its ethernet header to know who sent
it if source address is really wrong (f.e. solarises2.[34]
like to generate packets with randomly generated sources and destinations).

Such messages can occur during initialization (and shutdown) phase
(when forwarding is already/still enabled, but routing tables
are still invalid).
Otherwise, they mean a configuration error, or software bug.

Alexey Kuznetsov.