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SubjectRe: "bad checksum" messages

On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, David Lynes wrote:
> Hi, the following message spontaneously appears on the root console while
> logged in but inactive:
>
> UDP: bad checksum. From 00000000:68 to FFFFFFFF:67 ulen 308

Some box on your network is looking for a bootp server. Rumour has it that
some client implementations of bootp are buggy in their checksum handling.
Unless you are the bootp server, ignore the messages.



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