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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 10:02:21 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/netinet ip_icmp.c 
Message-ID:  <200005221602.KAA95733@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 May 2000 17:13:36 %2B0200." <xzppuqemxcv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 
References:  <xzppuqemxcv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>  <200005221500.IAA44122@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <xzppuqemxcv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: >   Log:
: >   Add option ICMP_BANDLIM_SUPPRESS_OUTPUT to the mix.  With this option,
: >   badport_bandlim() will not muck up your console with printf() messages.
: 
: This should be a sysctl variable, not a compile-time option.

Agreed.  I'm leery of adding it at all since the output almost always
indicates one of two things.  a) The limit is too low and should be
raised or b) you are under attack.  Either one of these things is a
need to know ASAP condition.

Warner


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