I'm getting the following message in /var/log/messages on two computers on
the same subnet. It reads as follows:
Apr 15 12:10:56 klondike kernel: ICMP: failed checksum from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Obviously the hostname and time/date are different each time
but the source is always the same.
I was able to find out who owns xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and did a whois on their
hostname, it's nobody I know. I understand ICMP is used in pings and SNMP
but I can't imagine why that would be of interest to someone from
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
I imagine this message is innocuous but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Thanks,
Blair.
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