From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 7:39: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE91437B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merle.it.northwestern.edu (merle.it.northwestern.edu [129.105.16.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D19043E4A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:39:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mre037@merle.acns.nwu.edu) Received: from localhost (mre037@localhost) by merle.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA07256 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:38:52 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:38:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Redmond Militante To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: limiting closed port rst response from ... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi all i saw this messages in /var/log/messages over the weekend repeated several times oct 21 09:35:15 hostname /kernel: limiting closed port rst response from 384 to 200 packets per second also listed in the log were several attempts to connect to the machine via anonymous ftp can anyone tell me what the limiting closed port... message means? thanks redmond Redmond Militante Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA r-militante@northwestern.edu 847-467-7617 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message