From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 18 23:41:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buddha.quicksilver.co.nz (buddha.quicksilver.co.nz [202.89.130.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909FA37BC7E for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobrien@quicksilver.co.nz) Received: from quicksilver.co.nz (dhcp-2.quicksilver.co.nz [202.89.130.11]) by buddha.quicksilver.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06818; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:41:38 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <394DC0B5.2A4F880D@quicksilver.co.nz> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:41:57 +1200 From: "Sarton O'Brien" Organization: Quicksilver Internet http://www.quicksilver.co.nz/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Silver Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Is my bandwidth limited somehow? References: <394DB86A.C5603C9F@quicksilver.co.nz> <20000619081617.A26533@draenor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What you're looking for is this: (taken from LINT) > > # ICMP_BANDLIM enables icmp error response bandwidth limiting. You > # typically want this option as it will help protect the machine from > # D.O.S. packet attacks. > # > options ICMP_BANDLIM > > Hope it helps. You'll need to change the bandwidth limit. I wouldn't > suggest removing this from your kernel. Thanks, just a couple of quick questions, I'm not entirely sure I know what this is is for. The server is firewalled except for 3 ports, 2 used for game connections and 1 for http. Would removing this really pose much of a threat. If this is suppose to limit bad replies, would it effect the way the server operates? I don't care about the console spam .... I only log in as a user remotely anyway. I have noticed that trying to connect externally can _sometimes_ take for ever ... if it connects at all, but connecting on the internal network is no problem. Basically I guess what I'm asking is, can this limiter be a nusiance in some circumstances and would removing it prove anything. Thanks for the help so far. Sarton > > Cheers, > Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message