From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 02:33:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057C116A41F for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:33:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E1943D46 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:33:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C565D5E; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:33:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95886-07; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:33:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005505CF6; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:33:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <437D3D67.9060904@mac.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:33:11 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antonio Gandara References: <003001c5ebe2$aa0e3040$8a0010ac@antonioh89t9q9> In-Reply-To: <003001c5ebe2$aa0e3040$8a0010ac@antonioh89t9q9> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RST response in message log? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:33:13 -0000 Antonio Gandara wrote: > Just had a general question as to this message which appeared in the message > log file and dmesg. While I understand it is reducing response to packets, I > am perplexed as to what causes this to happen? I am running 4.11 Release. > > Nov 16 11:07:18 eagle /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 300 to > 200 packets per second It means something was trying to connect to more than 300 TCP ports (per second) on your machine which are closed, most probably because someone is running a port scan against your machine. -- -Chuck