sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast.

[Dan Egli]

We get that all the time at work, and what it is is (for us anyway) a card
in the router that is dying. Our router has about 6 addresses, and one of
them is always sending 'invalid ICMP error to a broadcast', to anyone on
that particular network segment.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> 
> [Robert Bartels <rbart2 at pop.uky.edu>]
> > I'm trying to run samba but my log keeps getting filled with errors.
> > xxx.xxx.xx.xxx sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast happens
> > every few seconds...
> 
> I don't think this has anything to do with Samba.  It seems to be a
> faulty TCP/IP stack on the machine whose IP you see.  (That or a buggy
> switch/bridge, I suppose.)
> 
> You may be able to configure syslog to ignore these messages.  Probably
> not, but check.  There also might be some kernel parameters you can
> configure, depending on what version of Unix you are using.
> 
> Peter
> 
>