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Re: rwhod: Connection refused
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Wed Apr 17 00:57:53 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:16:37 +0100 (BST)
From: Philip Blundell <phil@tazenda.demon.co.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604150227.DAA03808@snowcrash.cymru.net>
On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> You have a broken machine (probably SunOS) replying to your broadcast
> with an ICMP unreachable port.
Ah, thanks. That was indeed the problem. The offending machine is
actually connected with a SLIP link. Since there isn't really any such
thing as a broadcast on a point-to-point link, the datagrams are going out
with that machine's address in the destination field. Presumably it *is*
entitled to give a port unreachable here.
I guess the easiest fix is just to take out the line from rwhod that
reports the errors, and let it fail quietly. Or I could tell rwhod not to
transmit on non-broadcast interfaces.
P.
