Well that makes sense to me. Thanks for all your replies. Antonio
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Moran Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:36 PM To: Antonio Gandara Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: RST response in message log? Antonio Gandara wrote: > Hi, > > Just had a general question as to this message which appeared in the > message > log file and dmesg. While I understand it is reducing response to packets, > I > am perplexed as to what causes this to happen? I am running 4.11 Release. > > Nov 16 11:07:18 eagle /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 300 > to > 200 packets per second While there are other things that could cause this, it's almost always indicative of a portscan. The RSTs are limited to prevent DoS attacks from generating overly huge amounts of traffic. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
