RE: What could this icmp mean?

["Pablo Moore" <pemoore () fedex com>]

It looks like 10.30.1.16 may have a default route to 10.30.1.254 if it
can't find something.  Your next hop from 10.30.0.1 should have been
10.30.1.1 to get to the 10.30.1.0 subnet. 

I have no idea why you're getting a bad checksum. It could be as simple
as a faulty cable causing this, or as complex as the two routers
fighting over half/full duplex mode.

Also, if you have "do not fragment" turned on, you may be killing your
VPN connection.  

Just my humble opinion. 


Paul Moore
Security & Business Continuity
FedEx Express Corporation



-----Original Message-----
From: Tomas [mailto:s.tomas () gmail com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
7:11 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: What could this icmp mean?

Hello list,

We have networks (10.30.0.0/24 and 10.30.1.0/24) connected trough VPN
and
one internet line. The gateways for VPN are 10.30.0.1 from one side and
10.30.1.1 from the other, and 10.30.1.254 for internet (for both
networks).

I've launched tcpdump today on my internet firewall's internal interface
(10.30.1.254) and I found this:

10.30.1.254 > 10.30.1.16: icmp: redirect 10.30.0.4 to host 10.30.1.1 for
10.30.1.16.445 > 10.30.0.4.1959: [|tcp] (DF) (ttl 127, id  7691, bad
cksum
c76d! differs by 100) (ttl 255, id 23807)

I'm a bit confused, what could this icmp mean? First of all, I'm sure
that
neither of these hosts (10.30.1.254, 10.30.1.16, 10.30.0.4) are sending
any
icmp requests (I'm not sure about 10.30.1.1; it's not in my control).
And
the second of all, why the checksum is bad?