Hi Jim,

Try this in your rc.local

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_response

Have fun,
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Wednesday, July 05, 2000, 4:58:25 PM, you wrote:

JE> I am running Red Hat 6.2 behind a firewall on a private 10.12.50.x network.
JE> I have been getting these strange ICMP broadcast errors that occur every 12
JE> minutes constantly.  I don't not have any machine with the address 10.0.0.1

JE> I can trace them back to a specific day and time when they started, but I
JE> was not doing any work on the kernel on that day or anytime around that day.

JE> Here is the output of /var/log/messages
JE> Note: the "..." represent normal output between ICMP errors


JE> Jul  5 00:20:36 linux1 kernel: 10.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a
JE> broadcast.
JE> Jul  5 00:20:36 linux1 kernel: 10.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a
JE> broadcast.
JE> ...
JE> ...
JE> Jul  5 00:32:44 linux1 kernel: 10.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a
JE> broadcast.
JE> Jul  5 00:32:44 linux1 kernel: 10.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a
JE> broadcast.
JE> ...
JE> ...
JE> Jul  5 00:44:44 linux1 kernel: 10.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a
JE> broadcast.
JE> Jul  5 00:44:44 linux1 kernel: 10.0.0.1 sent an invalid ICMP error to a
JE> broadcast.

JE> Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

JE> Thank you,

JE> Jim Ewaka

JE> I would also like to thank those that replied to my post earlier.



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