Re: PATCH: duplicate IP detection

Marc Merlin (marc@merlins.org)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:42:42 -0700

On jeu, oct 14, 1999 at 12:39:04 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > +
> > + printk (KERN_WARNING "Uh Oh, MAC address %s claims to have our IP addresses (%s) (duplicate IP conflict likely)\n", hbuffer, in_ntoa(sip));
> > + break;
>
> You want to rate limit that so a stream of requests cant be used to spam
> the console

Good point, I'll add a net_ratelimit in there

Marc

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