Re: kernel: ICMP: 158.155.0.1: Source Route Failed.

Larry Daffner (vizzie@airmail.net)
Sat, 23 Mar 1996 01:11:23 -0600 (CST)


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> I have been getting this message a lot. What does this mean?
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> kernel: ICMP: 158.155.0.1: Source Route Failed.
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Looks like you either tried to send an ICMP packet with a source route
through a host which doesn't honor source routing, or doesn't exist.
What do you have referencing the above address? That would be the
place to start looking.

I could be wrong about that, since I'm not a guru on the network code,
but as far as I can trace it, that would seem to be the only entry
point to that error message is recieving a reply that states that a
Source route fails.

Does linux source route packets, or could the routing have been done
further up the line? It seems to me that if linux source routes
packets, it's somewhat hypocritical since we reject them by default.

-Larry