On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:41:36PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > Hi, > > I have this in my dmesg: > > ICMP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX: Source Route Failed. > > >From the info I found, it means this machine sent a ICMP source routed > >packet > and that this packet was rejected by the machine XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (this is a > web server....). > >From what I see, the linux kernel rejects source routed packet (option > CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y). But is this only for IP packets or is it applied to ICMP? > If it applies to ICMP, how come I get this error?
ICMP is a protocol on the level of UDP or TCP. It is sent inside IP. Thus, a source routed ICMP packet _is_ a source routed IP packet. Obviously, the answer to your question is that it will apply. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
