From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 11: 9:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.snfc21.pbi.net (mta1.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1683914BDC for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 11:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from madscientist@thegrid.net) Received: from remus ([63.193.246.169]) by mta1.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with SMTP id <0FKS00F7VIJ7V9@mta1.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 11:09:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 11:09:47 -0800 From: The Mad Scientist Subject: Re: watchtower security check output X-Sender: i289861@mail.thegrid.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <4.1.19991106110906.00941630@mail.thegrid.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:00 AM 11/6/99 +0000, you wrote: >watchtower kernel log messages: >> icmp-response bandwidth limit 120/100 pps >> icmp-response bandwidth limit 103/100 pps >> icmp-response bandwidth limit 115/100 pps >> icmp-response bandwidth limit 102/100 pps >> icmp-response bandwidth limit 119/100 pps >> icmp-response bandwidth limit 116/100 pps >> icmp-response bandwidth limit 119/100 pps I'm guessing this is because I've got the ICMP_BANDLIM option in my kernel, but I'm curious about what exactly it is doing. Does the kernel send out ICMP source quench packets when it detects a flood? What do the numbers and pps mean? Thanks in advance, -Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message