Source Quench error but telnet works

[Karthik Narayanan_4]

Hi ,
When I try to ping my m/c from an other, I receive source quench error.
But when I telnet to the same m/c I am able to do that.

Why is this?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Karthik Narayanan.

[Ted Ellis_2]

this should get you cleared up

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa041af48a9e5d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

[John Poff]

Hi,

The source quench is an old method used by ICMP for flow control. It really isn't used anymore, and you can turn it off using the 'ndd' command. We used to see it a lot here, and it really bothered our network guys because they use OpenView to monitor everything, and when one of our boxes sent a Source Quench, it would turn their icons blue. We turned it off on all our boxes and never had a problem.

Try:

ndd -set /dev/ip ip_send_source_quench 0

to turn it off.

JP

[Kellogg Unix Team]

Put John's solution in the following file -

/etc/rc.config.d/nddconf

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

I have posted this question before and you can go to the following link to have more details

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x64a8663ce855d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Regards,
Patrick

[Jim Keeble]

The information you have received regarding using ndd is correct and safe to use to disable sending source quench messages.

However, the root cause could be a problem in rpcd that is corrected by the DCE runtime patch PHSS_20447. This patch text lists this as fix # 9:

9. JAGaa35855 : rpcd at 11.0 produces unwanted ICMP source quench messages.



This patch has been superceded by PHSS_21617.