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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: ICMP: failed checksum from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
From:       hpa () transmeta ! com (H !  Peter Anvin)
Date:       1997-04-30 21:36:08
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.970430152722.124D-100000@dogbert.breu.org>
By author:    "Joseph W. Breu" <breu@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
> 
> 	Running the 2.0.30 kernel on two machines on a localnet, I get the
> following error sometimes.
> 
> Apr 30 15:27:16 dilbert kernel: ICMP: failed checksum from 206.184.214.34
> 

206.184.214.34 is linux.kernel.org.  I find it highly unlikely that
that address would have made it onto your local network without a
connection to the Internet.  What, exactly, were you doing?  My guess
is that you were PPPing in to the 'net, or some such, and got a
corrupt packet.

	-hpa
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