Re: martians

A.N.Kuznetsov (kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 22:40:40 +0400


In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.970601171219.9739A-100000@xgw15.pal.xgw.fi> you wrote:
: This's prolly an old subject but...

: Jun 1 17:16:29 bx2 kernel: martian source 00000000 for 00000000, dev ppp0
: Jun 1 17:16:29 bx2 kernel: ll header: 45 00 00 28
: Jun 1 17:36:27 bx2 kernel: martian source 00000000 for 00000000, dev ppp0
: Jun 1 17:36:27 bx2 kernel: ll header: 45 00 00 28
: Jun 1 17:37:25 bx2 kernel: martian source 00000000 for 00000000, dev ppp0
: Jun 1 17:37:25 bx2 kernel: ll header: 45 00 00 28
: What does it mean? ;)

Your peer sends you packets with invalid IP addresses.

: And can I safely 'echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_log_martians' ? ;)

Yes. But it would be better to try to fix the problem on other
side of PPP.

Alexey Kuznetsov.