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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:03:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr)
To:        sheldonh@starjuice.net, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting closed port RST response from 381 to 200 p
Message-ID:  <200204160003.g3G03Z501882@sheol.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <13814.1018882311_axl.seasidesoftware.co.za@ns.sol.net>
References:  <13814.1018882311_axl.seasidesoftware.co.za@ns.sol.net>

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In article <13814.1018882311_axl.seasidesoftware.co.za@ns.sol.net>,
	sheldonh@starjuice.net writes:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:20:01 +1000, Andrew Johns wrote:
> 
>> Actually Sheldon I think that's a great idea - helps with
>> syslog DoS somewhat as well.  Anybody else care to contemplate
>> making it either a default or sysctl (ICMP_BANDLIMIT_DOSLIMIT?)
> 
> In CURRENT, logging is conditional on a sysctl value; the message
> format is unchanged from that of STABLE, but logging can be turned off
> completely if desired.  This seems to keep most people happy.
> 
> I don't think my preference (always seeing the messages, but having
> syslog coalesce them) is representative of the majority of folks to whom
> this matters.

Here's one that agrees with you, especially if I'm monitoring with
root-tail; the coalescing is a welcomed feature as far as I'm concerned.

> Ciao,
> Sheldon.

Dave

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