excessive logging

John Albee guesswho911@home.com
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:54:26 -0700


I also noticed something on this for a while in terms of errors when I 
was configuring a firewall for my home network connected to @home .  I 
dont see it going on anymore though.  Then again there was a problem 
with the central node for our area for a period of time that might have 
been generating these errors.


John Albee


Todd Hought wrote:

> I have noticed that my system is logging a HUGE amount of network errors that 
> @home is generating:
> looks something like this:
> kernel: 24.7.74.165 sent and invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.
> What exactly is this, and how do I either, 1) make the logs ignore it or, 2) 
> not log in the first place?
> Thanks in advance! :-)
> -T
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