Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Option to suppress annoying "x.x.x.x sent an invalid ICMP | | Date | 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
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |