Re: [PATCH] Option to suppress annoying "x.x.x.x sent an invalid ICMP
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:34:35 +0000 (GMT)
> Linus,
>
> It is known that some routers are not RFC 1122 compliant, and send out
> bogus error respones to invalid broadcasts.
>
> Later Linux kernels detect this, printing a kernel message.
>
> This is great as a diagnostic tool, but extremely annoying when your
> console gets about 10 of these every minute. ;)
>
> Presently, there is no kernel option to turn off these options. This
> patch gives that option - It is made against 2.1.127.
Can you make this a sysctl instead ? It really ought to be a run time
configurable. Another possible help is to also remember the last couple
of addresses warned about, since most people seem to only have one broken
router per network ;)
Alan
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