From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 1 16:52:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sunny.pacific.net.sg (sunny.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAA337B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:52:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop1.pacific.net.sg (pop1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.85]) by sunny.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id eA20qCY13721; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:52:12 +0800 (SGT) Received: from garychang (spoff119.pacific.net.sg [203.120.94.119]) by pop1.pacific.net.sg with SMTP id IAA28857; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:52:11 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <000501c04466$e20b05a0$775e78cb@garychang> From: "James Lim" To: "Moritz Hardt" , "Buliwyf McGraw" , References: <200011020043.BAA05151@post.webmailer.de> Subject: Re: Console Message Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:50:23 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" To: "Buliwyf McGraw" ; 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 > >======================================================================= > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message