Re: [Lug-Nuts] Weird kernel message from syslogd

From: Mike Machado (mike@cheapnet.net)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 08:57:28 PST


Well if they are simply ICMP packets (proto 1) then yeah a extended
access-list should be able to trap those.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Rick Johnson wrote:

>
> I tracked it down. Our syslog daemon was getting hammered with DENY
> messages to an ICMP broadcast. It was too fast for the system to keep up
> with. So I turned off the logging for these. Here was the offending entry.
>
> Feb 22 22:20:58 blah kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1
> 207.44.231.3:8 255.255.255.255:0 L=92 S=0x00 I=48232 F=0x0000 T=249
>
> I know this is off topic, but is there a way to stop these types of
> packets from reaching the hosts on the network.
>
> Specifically, does anyone know a command to stop this on a Cisco 2514?
>
> -Rick
>
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Machado wrote:
>
> >
> > Is this the syslog-ng :) Maybe they thought it how to talk. I have never
> > heard of that before.
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Rick Johnson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I was logged in as root on one of our servers and just recieved the
> > > following message in my ssh window.
> > >
> > > [rsjohn@blah ~]$
> > > Message from syslogd@blah at Tue Feb 22 22:05:45 2000 ...
> > > blah kernel: I=62707 F=0x0000 T=249
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone know what it might mean?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Rick
> > >
> > >
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