From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 23 13:05:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13697 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13673 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:05:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08354; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:05:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:05:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Randal S. Masutani" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet too large errors? In-Reply-To: <199801212048.KAA12116@oldyeller.comtest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Randal S. Masutani wrote: > Does anyone know what these errors are? Are they an attack on my system? > Is it comming in from the dial-up line or out to the dial-up line? > > Jan 17 23:35:18 oldyeller ppp[6990]: tun0: Error: Packet too large (4102), discarding. > Jan 17 23:35:29 oldyeller ppp[6990]: tun0: Error: Packet too large (4102), discarding. They're coming over the link, so they are probably from the remote. They're probably modem errors, nothing to get too worked up about. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major