From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 3:45: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from idea.co.uk (ultra2.idea.co.uk [194.36.20.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5749C15313 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 03:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kiril@idea.co.uk) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by idea.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id LAA24194 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:39:08 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <199905121039.LAA24194@idea.co.uk> Subject: ICMP bandwidth limiter To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:39:08 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, this came up on the console, presumably because I have the ICMP_BANDLIM options in my kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 118/100 pps icmp-response bandwidth limit 106/100 pps icmp-response bandwidth limit 101/100 pps icmp-response bandwidth limit 112/100 pps icmp-response bandwidth limit 120/100 pps ....... which sort of raises a few question :-) 1. is there any way of raising the built-in limit to, say, 120 (whatever that number means), and if yes, is there a risk of being "pinged-out" 2. is there any way of catching the IP from which the flood ping is coming from ? 3. should I ask on -security ? Kiril PS. Please please CC me if you reply To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message