regarding huge spikes

Fri Aug 22 11:26:32 PDT 2003

>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:05:15 -0700
>From: richard childers / kg6hac <fscked at pacbell.net>
>To: baylisa at baylisa.org
>Subject: regarding huge spikes

>I've found that turning off ICMP replies in the firewall brought the 
>traffic to 135 to a halt.

For any particular ICMP message type?

(IMO, blanket cutoff of all ICMP is unlikely to be a good idea, as it
breaks too many useful things -- such as MTU discovery & traceroute.)

For all that, I could adjust my firewall to not bother reporting the
tcp/135 packets it drops on the floor; I already do that for certain
types of traffic I don't care about (and for the reporting of which
merely serves to make the haystack bigger, while I'm looking for
needles).

Peace,
david
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