[4526] in linux-net channel archive
Re: IP Masquerading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Remco van de Meent)
Wed Sep 25 00:06:55 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:20:51 +0200
To: Charles Brian Hill <hill@unr.net>
From: Remco van de Meent <remco@cal052012.student.utwente.nl>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
At 02:12 24-09-96 -0400, Charles Brian Hill wrote:
>kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq!
>
>I know these are referring to erroneous data transfers...i.e., the TCP
>packets are arriving with errors. My question is, is anyone else seeing
>these kinds of errors? They are occurring on the machine that is acting
>as the dialup host and performing all the ipfwadm trickery.
I also get them sometimes in my daemon.log-file. I don't worry about it,
you know, sometimes a few packet on the net get lost or get broken... I
think that's why you get such things.
>
>If any of you have seen these, is there something that can be done about
>them? Is there some kind of trick I need to do in order to correct the
>problem? I'm using SLIP to connect to my dialup provider. That's about
>all the relevant information I can think of, though.
If you wanna loose them, why don't you just simply comment out the code
that log's such things in the source code for ip_masq. (though I dunno
where to find it, never looked after it).
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