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Subject: Re: 2.4.18pre4aa1
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 05:02, Russell King wrote:
> 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:

OK, this is the anomaly I spoke of.  Weird ICMP errors.  I've seen
others with this problem.

I don't think we have a proper solution here.

> 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.

	Robert Love

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