Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:59:15 -0400 From: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> To: "Timothy S. Bowers" <tim@nol.co.za> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS attack ? Message-ID: <20010614165915.C40416@databits.net> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010614221434.00aaeec0@nol.co.za>; from tim@nol.co.za on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:20:29PM %2B0200 References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010614221434.00aaeec0@nol.co.za>
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from xl(4): xl%d: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. You want to increase the "NMBCLUSTERS" kernel config variable. See the archives for appropriate values/etc. It's not necessarily a DOS attack, your machine is just getting a lot of traffic. -pete ++ 14/06/01 22:20 +0200 - Timothy S. Bowers: | I'm getting this same error message all the time, even after I increased the kernel maxusers setting to 512. | bug in 3com drivers ? dos attack ? | | xl1: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! | | Thanks, | Timothy | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> Databits Network Services, Inc. <http://databits.net>; finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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