Fw: sendpkt: Connection refused

Mike Black (mblack@csihq.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:51:18 -0400

Thought I'd forward this from the DHCP list....can't say I've noticed this
problem but maybe others have...

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
To: breu@cfu.net <breu@cfu.net>
Cc: dhcp-server@fugue.com <dhcp-server@fugue.com>
Date: Sunday, October 11, 1998 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: sendpkt: Connection refused

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>> Why exactly would I get this error?
>>
>> Oct 10 06:27:18 defiant dhcpd: sendpkt: Connection refused
>
>Because Linux stupidly reports ICMP errors it receives for a given UDP
>port the next time you try to send on a socket bound to that port,
>even though the error has nothing to do with the packet you're trying
>to send. The error is essentially informational at this point - when
>send_packet gets it while transmitting a packet, it just retransmits
>the packet. Utterly bogus, but harmless to you.
>
>> server is rh5.1 with kernel 2.1.122
>> no special routes set up - do we still need these in the newest kernel?
>
>Dunno.
>
> _MelloN_
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