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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:10:16 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting closed port RST response
Message-ID:  <20011017171016.A66131@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0110171141520.608-100000@onyx>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:47:48AM -0400
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0110171141520.608-100000@onyx>

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:47:48AM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> 
> I was using FreeBSD a while ago, suddenly a lot of messages show up:
> 
> Limiting closed port RST responses from 224 to 200 packets per seconds.
> 
> These messages persist even after reboot. What happened? What should I do?  

Could someone be port scanning you? Another possibility is that you
alot of machines are trying to contact a TCP service on the machine
in question, which isn't running.

	David.

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