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From: todd@janus.Quotron.com (Todd Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX ICMP Violations
Keywords: icmp
Message-ID: <520@janus.Quotron.com>
Date: 9 Feb 90 02:06:18 GMT
Organization: Quotron Systems Inc., Los Angeles
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Hi.  

I've ran into some AIX TCP/IP violations that are causing problems.

RFC 1122, "Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers",
(page 39) states "An ICMP error message MUST NOT be sent as the 
result of receiving:... "a datagram sent as a link-layer broadcast"

Well one of our PS/2 AIX hosts is sending ICMP Destination unreachable
(Net unreachable) messages in response to Ethernet DL broadcasts and
generating a lot of useless traffic.

Does anyone know how to disable this *feature*?

--todd