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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:22:00 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Erol Akarsu <eakarsu_33@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting icmp unreach response fron 348 to 200 packets/sec
Message-ID:  <200808160122.m7G1M4od052103@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <136625.5517.qm@web45211.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References:  <136625.5517.qm@web45211.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

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At 09:01 PM 8/15/2008, Erol Akarsu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for helping this.
>
>Now, I am getting "Limiting icmp unreach response fron 348 to 200 packets/sec"

Hi,
         These questions are better asked on 
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.  But the above indicates processes are 
hitting your freebsd server on ports where nothing is listenting and 
the FreeBSD box is sending out "port unreachable" messages at a limit 
of 200 per second, but if it were to answer all bogus requests the 
rate would have been 348 per second.

>In which conditions can we get this? does this effect functionality 
>of the system?

other hosts are accessing ports on your server where nothing is listening.

>How can I solve this issue?

sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.blackhole=1
sysctl -w net.inet.udp.blackhole=1

to stop all the port unreachable messages, but ultimately find out 
why your program / application is not listening on that port.


         ---Mike 




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