Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:50:23 +0800 From: "James Lim" <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg> To: "Moritz Hardt" <mhardt@morix.de>, "Buliwyf McGraw" <buliwyf@libertad.univalle.edu.co>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Console Message Message-ID: <000501c04466$e20b05a0$775e78cb@garychang> References: <200011020043.BAA05151@post.webmailer.de>
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Hi,
I suppose you did enable icmp_bandlim in ur kernel which restricts
ICMP traffic to your system. THose error msgs shows that there are in excess
icmp traffic.
sysctl -a | grep bandlim
You could change the settings to higher using sysctl -w
Regards,
James Lim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moritz Hardt" <mhardt@morix.de>
To: "Buliwyf McGraw" <buliwyf@libertad.univalle.edu.co>;
<security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: Console Message
> This is generated by syslogd, if it is set up to print some messages on
/dev/console.
>
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:46:47 -0500 (COT), Buliwyf McGraw wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi... few days ago, i have a new message in my console, but i
> > dont know what it means or which program is generating this:
> >
> > icmp_request bandwidth limit 105/100 pps
> > icmp_request bandwidth limit 120/100 pps
> > icmp_request bandwidth limit 117/100 pps
> > icmp_request bandwidth limit 108/100 pps
> >
> > It is a security problem?
> >
> >=======================================================================
> > Buliwyf McGraw
> > Administrador del Servidor Libertad
> > Centro de Servicios de Informacion
> > Universidad del Valle
> >=======================================================================
> >
> >
> >
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