Re: ICMP outside TCP window?

B. James Phillippe (bryan@watchguard.com)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:56:31 -0700 (PDT)


On 26 Sep 1997, Andi Kleen wrote:

> "B. James Phillippe" <bryan@Terran.ORG> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is another one of those "there's a new debugging message that
> > I don't understand" posts. Would anyone with a higher degree of network
> > kernel knowlege mind descibing the cause and effect of this message to me?
>
> I put this message in to see how often this situation happens in practice.
> In your case it's correct, so the check might get relaxed a little bit.
> If it bothers you you can undefine ICMP_PARANOIA in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c.

Hi Andi, thanks for your reply. I understand it now. It doesn't bother
me at all, I just wanted to understand the meaning behind it and the
circumstances under which it might appear. Thanks again,

-bp

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