Re: ICMP: failed checksum from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
30 Apr 1997 21:36:08 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970430152722.124D-100000@dogbert.breu.org>
By author: "Joseph W. Breu" <breu@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
>
> Running the 2.0.30 kernel on two machines on a localnet, I get the
> following error sometimes.
>
> Apr 30 15:27:16 dilbert kernel: ICMP: failed checksum from 206.184.214.34
>

206.184.214.34 is linux.kernel.org. I find it highly unlikely that
that address would have made it onto your local network without a
connection to the Internet. What, exactly, were you doing? My guess
is that you were PPPing in to the 'net, or some such, and got a
corrupt packet.

-hpa

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