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## ICMP - Supressing Messages in 2.1.82 Kernel

  Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
  Keywords: ICMP request IPV4 broadcast
  Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:26:25 GMT
  From: Brent Johnson <brent@foxtrot.dyn.ml.org>

On our local network we are using a terminal server which uses something called "Win-S" - it intentionally sends an ICMP (ping) request to the broadcast address - because thats what its supposed to do (i dont know the details of why). Because of this I keep getting a message like: ipv4: (1 messages suppresed. Flood?) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx send an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast. How can I stop this error message from being displayed?

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1. Change /etc/syslog.conf by Balaji Srinivasan