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sstafford
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Mar 21, 2018

Warning, ICMP error limit reached.

Upgraded a VCMP guest to version 13.1.0.3 Build 0.0.5 yesterday morning, and am now seeing new log warnings. While that's expected, I'd still like to know what they mean. For instance a message sim...
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gedeon007
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May 28, 2018

I have the same experience, but on a VE running on a VMware host. I noticed these warnings in /var/log/ltm on TMOS version 13.1.0.6. Then I upgraded to 13.1.0.7 but nothing has changed. I also tried to run this two tcpdumps - without success (nothing appeared in dump):

 

tcpdump -enni 0.0 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0' (as Kai suggested)

 

tcpdump -ni 0.0:nnnp -s0 -v icmp

 

 

When I go to Statistics ›› Module Statistics : Traffic Summary : ICMP I can see that horrible amount of IPv4 ICMP Packets has been transmitted. When clearing statistics and refreshing second by second the number can increase even by 300-400.

 

 

Any idea, what can cause this? I already stopped all my virtual machines that are located in the same networks as my VE... no clue...