router stops working because of udp packets
Thomas Krause -CI-
freebsd-isp at chef-ingenieur.de
Sat May 17 00:38:53 PDT 2003
Thank's to all for your response. I'll question the customer on Monday
and probably sell him a firewall. (Should I notice that I hate Microsoft
software?)
>
> It is the Slammer worm. It can easily generate 60Mbps of traffic on a
> fast ethernet LAN. It seems that your router does not have enough
> resources to route that much. Perhaps add more mbufs, and more efficient
> network cards. If using the fxp driver, use the link0 flag to reduce
> interupts.
There is one fxp and one xl card in that box - but how to use
the link0 flag? ( 'man fxp' doesn't help)
>
>
>>BTW: 4.6.2-RELEASE-p9 is running on the router.
>
>
> You should probably upgrade to 4.8 too.
Until now 4.6.2 was running very well - and I doubt that 4.8 would
forward that traffic. (Anyway, I've a reason to upgrade to 4.7 at least)
Regards,
Thomas.
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