From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 6 17:50: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91F937B405 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g171o1t14180; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:50:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202070150.g171o1t14180@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: kern/34591: ICMP bandwidth limiting does not indicate interface Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/34591; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Eric Hodel Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/34591: ICMP bandwidth limiting does not indicate interface Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:46:30 -0800 On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:23:35PM -0800, Eric Hodel wrote: [snip] > >Description: > When limiting the ICMP responses, the interface upon which the > bandwidth is being limited is not displayed. For a machine with > multiple interfaces, the administrator will have to employ other > tools to determine which interface is affected The patch is somewhat bogus since right now, the limiting has nothing to do with interfaces. That is, if you have a 200 limit and there are 75 packets on if0, 75 packets on if1, and 75 packets on if2, you'll hit the limit. But which one should be displayed in the message? There is also the situation where there is a storm on if0, but a ICMP message from if1, where there is a low bandwidth, happens to trip the alarm. Now how often do situations like that happen? I really couldn't say. The patches provide a first approximation of the interface with the trouble, but can actually provide false information which I think may be more trouble than its worth. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message