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I am working on an arch linux machine with ethernet interface eth1. I have created interface eth1:0 using ifconfig and given it a dummy hw address (00:01:02:03:04:05). When I send a UDP packet to a server application running on a remote server machine, I get back the right response. But then I see ICMP Destination Unreachable going out from the eth1:0 interface ip address. How can I mute this ICMP message? I have tried different mac addresses, setup arp cache on both client and server machines without success.

Appreciate any help and thanks in advance.

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I wonder that you set an hw address to the additional interface. Are you aware, that the mac adresses started with 00:01:02 used by 3COM? (standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt) Why you need an additional mac address? To answer your question: Don't mute icmp responses but fix the problem or explain what you try to acomplish. – f4m8 Dec 20 '11 at 10:33
As I said I have also tried to use the interface hw address for alias interface but without success. Appreciate any help in fixing this. – John Qualis Dec 20 '11 at 10:38
What is your problem? – mailq Dec 20 '11 at 10:45
I would like to get rid of the ICMP messages. – John Qualis Dec 20 '11 at 10:57
Then open the destination. – mailq Dec 20 '11 at 11:41
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I'm sort of in the same boat with others here. Its better to track down and fix the root cause. To open the port isn't it a case of simply writing the correct firewall/IPTables rule? If you just want to blow ICMP outgoing, this thread should give you a good idea,

Why not block ICMP?

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