I find that message very handy. Keeps the network 'clean' too.
Joe
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> With pre-2.0.31-3, I'm experiencing a problem I haven't had since 22 May:
> while using dialout PPP, the connection will occasionally stop passing
> packets, and the syslog gets spammed with these messages:
>
> Aug 6 05:42:30 topside kernel: ICMP redirect from 155.135.1.100
> Aug 6 05:43:01 topside last message repeated 10 times
> Aug 6 05:43:09 topside last message repeated 11 times
> Aug 6 05:47:43 topside kernel: ICMP redirect from 155.135.1.100
> Aug 6 05:47:47 topside last message repeated 6 times
> Aug 6 05:51:06 topside kernel: ICMP redirect from 155.135.1.100
> Aug 6 05:55:15 topside kernel: ICMP redirect from 155.135.1.100
> Aug 6 05:55:18 topside last message repeated 6 times
> Aug 6 05:59:32 topside kernel: ICMP redirect from 155.135.1.100
> Aug 6 05:59:33 topside last message repeated 5 times
> Aug 6 06:00:45 topside last message repeated 4 times
> Aug 6 06:02:36 topside last message repeated 34 times
> Aug 6 06:03:24 topside last message repeated 22 times
> Aug 6 06:04:31 topside last message repeated 32 times
> Aug 6 06:05:27 topside last message repeated 14 times
> Aug 6 06:05:39 topside last message repeated 2 times
>
> I don't receive these messages with recent 2.1 kernels, nor with Dave
> Miller's pre-2.0.31-2. Here are the networking-related options I have for
> the kernel:
>
> CONFIG_INET=y
> CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
> CONFIG_RST_COOKIES=y
> CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
> CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
> CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
> CONFIG_PPP=y
> CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
> CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
> CONFIG_EEXPRESS=m
> CONFIG_NE2000=m
>
> %route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> comsvr2 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3 lo
> 10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 5 eth0
> default comsvr2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 75 ppp0
> ___
> Trevor Johnson
>
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