From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 16:22:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F68437B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from mail2.uniserve.com ([204.244.156.10]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14mkzE-0005oM-00; Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:22:20 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:22:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@athena.uniserve.ca To: Erick Mechler Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Runt packets In-Reply-To: <20010409161746.B33217@techometer.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Erick Mechler wrote: > I have a dual-homed machine doing routing and firewalling on which hundreds > of the following messages appear in my logs every 10 minutes or so: > > /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 44069/200 pps > /kernel: arp: runt packet > last message repeated 14691 times I think the ICMP problem is causing the runt problem. 44,069 packets per second is rather a lot, especialy if they are echo responses, meaning that your system is handling about 85,000 packets per second. That could very easily beyond the capabilities of the your CPU and network card. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message