Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 05:15:25 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too many routes Message-ID: <38b60f7d.109805672@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAIL20000224210411.A18212@welearn.com.au> References: <MAIL20000224210411.A18212@welearn.com.au>
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On 24 Feb 2000 05:00:24 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Yikes! I've got a 3.4-STABLE machine trying to suicide by collecting >routes for the whole Internet. How do I make it stop? (No I'm not >running routed) > >netstat -rn output scrolls for ages, and netstat -rs gives: > >routing: > 4294948419 bad routing redirects > 2982 dynamically created routes > 4294945279 new gateways due to redirects > 0 destinations found unreachable > 0 uses of a wildcard route Are you accpeting bogus ICMP cruft from the outside world perhaps ? Maybe try and use ipfw to filter out the appropriate icmp types, or use sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 if its in your kernel. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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