Re: 2.4.18pre4aa1

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 05:02:30 EST


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:37:42AM -0500, Dan Chen wrote:
> No weird anomalies here. I believe the ones you refer to were a result
> of ipv6 bits not being updated as well. Russell posted two patches for
> those.

No - I do see weirdness in ipv4 as well:

bash-2.04# uptime
 10:00am up 18:57, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
bash-2.04# dmesg|grep 'broad'
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
127.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.

Only one of these happened on boot. The rest randomly pop up over time.
I'm going to try tcpdumping lo to see if I can work out what's causing
them.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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