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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: ICMP-floods
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I have a patch attached to http://wiki.freebsd.org/Networking to 
rate-limit ICMP which is generated by the forwarding path.

It would be useful to find out if this offers symptomatic relief in this 
situation, although as Chuck points out, it is most likely being caused 
by a routing loop.

Regards,
BMS