Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-08 Thread Harold Grovesteen
Zach Pratt wrote: Three interfaces? You only talked about OSAs previously. eth0, eth1, and dummy0. What interface the packets leave on isn't the issue. It's that the system is receiving packets on an interface that it wouldn't expect them to be arriving on. Packets for the IP

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-08 Thread Harold Grovesteen
Why do you care? Unless you have emperical evidence that this is causing a problem, you are trying to control something that does not need to be controlled. You may have multiple routing tables but all get merged together in the OS's IP stack forwarding table. That is how the IP forwarding

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 05:47:57 -0500 Harold Grovesteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you care? Unless you have emperical evidence that this is causing a problem, you are trying to control something that does not need to be controlled. martian packets are normally frames which have invalid

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-08 Thread Harold Grovesteen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zach Pratt Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 5:15 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] occasional martian source messages I've done some further reading on the topic of asymmetrical routing, and I'm wondering if I should set up two routing

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-07 Thread Harold Grovesteen
Comments below. Mark Post wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 4:08 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], zach pratT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been receiving some martian source messages in /var/log/messages as I have been working on our SLES 10 system's network configuration, and I am

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-07 Thread Zach Pratt
Three interfaces? You only talked about OSAs previously. eth0, eth1, and dummy0. What interface the packets leave on isn't the issue. It's that the system is receiving packets on an interface that it wouldn't expect them to be arriving on. Packets for the IP address of eth1 arriving on

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-07 Thread Zach Pratt
I've done some further reading on the topic of asymmetrical routing, and I'm wondering if I should set up two routing tables (one for each interface). Any suggestions? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-07 Thread Gregg C Levine
: [LINUX-390] occasional martian source messages I've done some further reading on the topic of asymmetrical routing, and I'm wondering if I should set up two routing tables (one for each interface). Any suggestions

occasional martian source messages

2007-08-06 Thread zach pratT
I have been receiving some martian source messages in /var/log/messages as I have been working on our SLES 10 system's network configuration, and I am attempting to determine what the solution to these messages. We have never had SLES properly configured for network access (that's why I'm working

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-06 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Aug 6, 2007 at 4:08 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], zach pratT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been receiving some martian source messages in /var/log/messages as I have been working on our SLES 10 system's network configuration, and I am attempting to determine what the solution

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
I am assuming that these messages are due to the fact that the packet's are being sent out one interface and replies are arriving on the other interface. Isn't that what the src_vipa package is supposed to help with? Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged