Re: Odd error.

Steve McKnelly (theurge@cdc.net)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:27:37 -0400 (EDT)

Ok. I will grant that just for the simple fact that A) Its happening;
and; B) You have quite a bit more experience in this then I do. However,
this problem only began when I upgraded the server to 2.1.118 from 2.0.35.
Considering that I know the source, and their reluctance to change their
side, what recourse do I have, other then dropping back to 2.0.35? (I
know that dropping back to 2.0.35 is a minimalistic approach, as is trying
to make my side deaf, dumb and blind... So please, no flames from the
peanut gallery *grin*) Never-the-less, thanks. :)

Steve

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> And xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is faulty or misconfigured. Basically the reporting
> machine got an icmp message back complaining about a broadcast frame.
>
> You are not allowed to send icmp replies to broadcast frames. Its strictly
> forbidden in the RFCs. The normal cause of this is misconfiguration of
> broadcast addresses between the two nodes, although even then on ethernet
> the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is probably breaking RFC requirements since it should
> have been a mac layer broadcast too
>
>
>

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