[ale] Broadcasts filling up klog

Jim Popovitch yahoo at jimpop.com
Fri Apr 27 18:44:10 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:32 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Anyone know what could be causing these?
> 
> 209.168.246.189 sent an invalid ICMP type 3, code 3 error to a
> broadcast: 209.168.246.255 on eth0

That's a destination unreachable response from (presumably) your
upstream router at e^Deltacom.

Specifically:  "Port unreachable error. When the designated transport
protocol (e.g., UDP) is unable to demultiplex the datagram but has no
protocol mechanism to inform the sender."

-Jim P.




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