[parisc-linux] FW: SKB errors

[thunder7@xs4all.nl]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:53:07AM +0200, Witvliet, Hans wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Yesterday I received a (old but unused) 712/100 and tried to install the
> latest cd (0.9.2)
> 
> All went reasonably well but after some time I got a very annoying lot of
> error messages:
> 
> 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
> 
> These three lines appear every minute or so.
> 
> So I have a couple of questions:
> 1)	What's going on? it seems that the device driver for the loopback
> interface has a problem with its (linked-list) buffers

this has something to do with the dhcp-client, that is started
erroneously.

> 
> 2)	How to get rid of it? switching consoles is no use: they haunt me
> everywhere ;-)

killall dhcp to stop it now, then rm /etc/rc?.d/*dhcp* to stop it after
the next reboot.

There is something to be said for downloading or using the archives of
this mailing-list, they provide a wealth of information :-)

Good luck,
Jurriaan
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