Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6] Nonsense-messages from iptables + co. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:50:30 -0500 |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:10:04 +0100, Harald Welte said: > > "ipt_hook: happy cracking." > > I guess it was Rusty. The idea message is a funny way of telling you > that you are sending incomplete ip headers. Something that is not > likely to occur unless you are trying to send corrupt packets via raw ip > sockets...
Actually, once I found the message, and saw the context, it was actually clear and self-explanatory. It was actually the ipfilter code's fault that it got generated in any context other than "trying to send an intentionall busticated packet"...
> There are people who do actually have fun developing linux code. And > Rusty has a peculiar sense of humor... for further reference see the > comments like 'furniture shopping' throughout the netfilter/iptables > source code. I sometimes wish I had the same humor like he has.
find arch/sparc* -name '*.[ch]'| xargs grep -i penguin
and then read through the files that finds (trap.c is particularly fun).
Somebody was having fun porting. ;)
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