Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:03:49 +0800 From: "James Lim" <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg> To: "Mike Silbersack" <silby@silby.com> Cc: "Moritz Hardt" <mhardt@morix.de>, "Buliwyf McGraw" <buliwyf@libertad.univalle.edu.co>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Console Message Message-ID: <001501c04468$c4570a20$775e78cb@garychang> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011011900580.29981-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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Hi all,
Ok, point taken :)
Regards,
James Lim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Silbersack" <silby@silby.com>
To: "James Lim" <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg>
Cc: "Moritz Hardt" <mhardt@morix.de>; "Buliwyf McGraw"
<buliwyf@libertad.univalle.edu.co>; <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Console Message
>
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, James Lim wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> There's little reason to raise the limit. Most likely he was seeing the
> rate limiting of RST packets caused by an nmap of his box. If he raises
> the limit, nmap will just scan faster next time.
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>
>
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