Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:33:11 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Antonio Gandara <antonio@triforce.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RST response in message log? Message-ID: <437D3D67.9060904@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <003001c5ebe2$aa0e3040$8a0010ac@antonioh89t9q9> References: <003001c5ebe2$aa0e3040$8a0010ac@antonioh89t9q9>
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Antonio Gandara wrote: > 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 It means something was trying to connect to more than 300 TCP ports (per second) on your machine which are closed, most probably because someone is running a port scan against your machine. -- -Chuck
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