From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 21:17:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C5137BE52 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA19318; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:17:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA24013; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:17:25 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too many routes Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 05:15:25 GMT Message-ID: <38b60f7d.109805672@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24 Feb 2000 05:00:24 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Yikes! I've got a 3.4-STABLE machine trying to suicide by collecting >routes for the whole Internet. How do I make it stop? (No I'm not >running routed) > >netstat -rn output scrolls for ages, and netstat -rs gives: > >routing: > 4294948419 bad routing redirects > 2982 dynamically created routes > 4294945279 new gateways due to redirects > 0 destinations found unreachable > 0 uses of a wildcard route Are you accpeting bogus ICMP cruft from the outside world perhaps ? Maybe try and use ipfw to filter out the appropriate icmp types, or use sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 if its in your kernel. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message