You are correct. So fix the doc.
cheers,
jamal
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Oskar Andreasson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just started checking out the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/error_cost and
> error_burst sysctl's. According to
> linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt:
>
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>
> error_burst and error_cost
> --------------------------
>
> These parameters are used to limit the warning messages written to the
> kernel log from the routing code. The higher the error_cost factor is,
> the fewer messages will be written. Error_burst controls when messages
> will be dropped. The default settings limit warning messages to one every
> five seconds.
>
> ----
>
> I just spent some time reading the source code in question, and if I am
> not totally off base... this is totally wrong? I am currently checking
> linux/net/ipv4/route.c, and if I am right, it limits how many
> ICMP_DEST_UNREACH we are sending to a specific host, and _possibly_ it
> will also printk() in the ip_rt_send_redirect() function. I don't know for
> sure, but I _think_ the default settings will limit ICMP_DEST_UNREACH
> sending in ip_error() to 5 per second...
>
> If anyone would shed some light on this, I would be tremenduously happy!
>
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> Oskar Andreasson
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>
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