On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 06:57:31AM -0400, John S. Gage wrote: > I keep getting the following messages on my terminal screen:
You should probably send these kinds of questions to debian-user in the future. debian-mentors is for people looking for help with creating Debian packages. > "NET: 53 messages suppressed > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast" > > this completely disrupts what I am doing and makes Debian unusable. > > What should I do to get rid of them? Try 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses'. To make this permanent, put 'net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses=1' in /etc/sysctl.conf. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
