Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alexm)]

Hi, everyone!

I have this entry in my /var/log/messages file:

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Aug 11 23:39:01 hr60 kernel: ICMP: failed checksum from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX!

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Where:
hr60 - my host name
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX - some external IP address.

This message repeats twice.
Can anybody explain what this message means, please?
I am somewhat paranoid. I got several of those logged within 3 days from
different IP addresses (mainly dialups).
I run a quake server on this machine, so my IP is known to many players.
I have seen a lot of failed logins, refused rsh, phf errors. However,
never ICMP checksums...

Help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

alexm

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