Re: "bad checksum" messages
Keith Owens (kaos@audio.apana.org.au)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:15:27 +1100 (EST)
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, David Lynes wrote:
> Hi, the following message spontaneously appears on the root console while
> logged in but inactive:
>
> UDP: bad checksum. From 00000000:68 to FFFFFFFF:67 ulen 308
Some box on your network is looking for a bootp server. Rumour has it that
some client implementations of bootp are buggy in their checksum handling.
Unless you are the bootp server, ignore the messages.