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RE: kernel: IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP:failed

To: "'lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: kernel: IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP:failed
From: Peter Mueller <pmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:27:08 -0700
> 
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > i noticed this in dmesg and messages:
> > 
> > kernel: IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP:failed checksum from 213.xxx.xxx.xxx!
> > last message repeated 1522 times.
> > Is this lvs specific (using nat) ? or can this be an attack?
> > 

What is a reverse ICMP checksum?  I'm assuming some kind of ICMP 'is it DoS'
validity check?  Anyone know?

> 
> I see those too
> Jun 17 22:16:19 wwc kernel: IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP: failed checksum from
> 193.203.8.8!  
> 
> not as many as you but every few hours a bunch.
> 

Any relation to that IP being a proxy?

On a side note it's always amusing to me to see any reference to
'seabone'... ah the pirates of the internet :P  .. are they still their own
continent?  (or am I way off and thinking of the wrong thing?!)

 13   181 ms   190 ms   180 ms  mi5-ny2-racc5.seabone.net [195.22.205.134]
 14   190 ms   181 ms   190 ms  pa5-mi5-racc3.seabone.net [195.22.192.134]
 15   191 ms   200 ms   190 ms  fa-eth-2-pa1.seabone.net [195.22.205.249]
 16   210 ms   210 ms   211 ms  srbija-telekom-1-yu-pa1.seabone.net
[195.22.192.
162]
 17   391 ms   340 ms   281 ms  PTT2-NET.telekom.yu [195.178.34.50]
 18   421 ms   431 ms   480 ms  BITS-7507.ptt.yu [212.62.38.78]
 19   541 ms   501 ms   440 ms  proxy.bitsyu.net [193.203.8.8]

Cheers & happy monday.. (if possible)

Peter


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