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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:48:18 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Adam Ulmer <aulmer@veriohosting.com>
To:        Spades <spades@galaxynet.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: icmp response bandwidth limit
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009291844250.53342-100000@orca.orem.veriohosting.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000930060014.00b56770@smtp.magix.com.sg>

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This looks very much like someone using nmap to probe your machine.  The
nmap software can be found at

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

I would think that you would not want to disable those messages as they
can tell you when someone is trying to peek at your machine.

Adam Ulmer

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Spades wrote:

> I have lot of these , in /var/log/messages
> 
> How to resolve it?
> 
> 
> Sep 30 05:45:58 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 222/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:01 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 223/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:07 irc1 last message repeated 2 times
> Sep 30 05:46:10 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 222/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:13 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 216/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:16 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 212/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:19 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 207/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:23 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 209/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:26 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 209/200 pps
> Sep 30 05:46:29 irc1 /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 210/200 pps
> 
> Spades (CService5)
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