[parisc-linux] bad loopback error msg

[Richard Hirst]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:20:15PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Helped someone install 0.9.2 on a B180 (serial console) and following
> the instructions, basically got it up and running.  He needed some help
> with setting up apt (pointing to HP internal mirror).
> 
> But I couldn't figure out what was causing the following error msg
> to get printed on the console every minute or so:
> 
>     ip_local_deliver: bad loopback skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN 
>     skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=328
>     PROTO=17 0.0.0.0:68 255.255.255.255:67 L=328 S=0x10 I=0 F=0x0000 T=16
> 
> Any ideas?

I think this is caused by dhclient being automatically run from
init scripts, even though you have specified a manual network config.
rm /etc/rc?.d/*dhclient or similar should help.  dhclient should
only be invoked via ifup/ifdown, but earlier versions installed
rc scripts as well.

Richard