Re: missing icmp errors for udp packets

[kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello!

> i tried to use kdb to trace

Alas, I do not believe to any results, obtained with kdb.
I believe to plain logic more. :-)


>                        the icmp_send, but got stuck somewhere after
> ip_output in dev_queue_xmit. so obviously 2.4.7 really tries to send
> something out to eth0, but fails somewhere somehow in low-level routines.

Particularly, I do not believe to this at all. 99% - the problem is
with rate limiting. Loopback is special only in this respect. :-)

Alexey