Re: [2.6] Nonsense-messages from iptables + co.

[Harald Welte]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:01:19PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:

> > I guess it was Rusty.  The idea message is a funny way of telling you
> > that you are sending incomplete ip headers.
> 
> Am I? what's with the *_limit() function called before the printk?

it's a generic network rate limiting function.  It prevents the same
message from being logged and logged again (and thus flooding your
syslog).

> > Something that is not likely to occur unless you are trying to send
> > corrupt packets via raw ip sockets...
> 
> Not at the times when these occurred.

there seemed to be a bug that I was unaware of, and according to other
mails in this thread it has been fixed.
 
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- Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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