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Subject: Re: strange TCP issue on RELENG_7  (probably solved)
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At 09:28 AM 9/3/2008, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>At 01:19 PM 8/22/2008, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>On one of our sendmail boxes that we are running RELENG_7, we have 
>>noticed an odd issue triggered or noticed by our monitoring system 
>>(bigbrother in this case).  The seems to have been happening ever 
>>since we installed it, so its not a recent commit issue.
>
>
>Just following up, I am still seeing this issue on a recent stable 
>from sept 2. (a sendmail box periodically sending an RST after 
>successful 3way handshake)

OK, I think we might have found the issue.  On the RELENG_7 box, the 
mc file didnt have

define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE', `40')dnl

which the other sendmail boxes have!  Hopefully thats all it was and 
if so, sorry for the noise!

         ---Mike