You can also turn it off with the following:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/log_martians

Stupidly, you need it on both since it assume true if anyone is set, and
the default appears to be true.

Frank

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 04:39, Paul Gray wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Sathya SH wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >    I am seeing some " Martian Source error ....." message in my master
> > node when I am connecting my cluster in public network. This message I
> > am getting only when I am working in text mode terminal.
> >     Anyone knows what is this error and how to block it.
> 
> This message means that on a specific subnet, you're seeing network
> traffic from an alternate (separate) subnet on that interface.  These
> packets are termed as martians because they're in a world where they don't
> belong.
> 
> For example, if you have a 192.168.10.0/24 network, and you hook it up to
> your public interface, you'll might see legitimate (routable) packets
> -- say, from yahoo.com, slashdot.net or oscar.sourceforge.net :) --
> that won't match your 192.168.10.0/24 subnet.
> 
> You can turn off console messages with "dmesg -n 1" as root.  Or, add a
> second meaningful IP address to your interface, viz-a-viz:
> ifconfig eth0:0 <...>, which will address the martian issue.
> 
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