errors

[scottt]

Anyone seen this or have any idea what this means:

kernel: martian source 123456c7 for 123456c7, dev eth0
kernel: ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 12 b3 d4 5c 67 89 10 11

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Scott

[Bill]

Maybe your NIC has the wrong drivers?

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Did I do that?

[scottt]

Nope...Got the right drivers.

[jsnow50]

Originally posted by scottt:
Anyone seen this or have any idea what this means:

kernel: martian source 123456c7 for 123456c7, dev eth0
kernel: ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 12 b3 d4 5c 67 89 10 11

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Scott

I am having this same problem, Does anyone know what is going on?

[ 14 February 2001: Message edited by: jsnow50 ]

[Craig McPherson]

A "martian" packet in Linux is one that arrives bearing an IP address from a forbidden address range -- 127*, or the various private ranges, I believe. Obviously, if you're on a local network that uses a private address range, you do not want Linux logging martians on your internal network interface. You should be able to turn it off like this:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/log_martians

Replace "eth0" accordingly.

Now, this might not be your problem... I haven't seen a message quite like yours before, so there could be some other kind of "Martian" packet I don't know about. But try that.

(Historical information: early Internet folklore jokingly said that the 127.* address range was reserved for the University of Mars, which is where the term "Martian packet" came from -- a packet from a reserved, impossible, or forbidden IP range)