icmp message in the log file

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 30 06:06:27 PST 2004


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, ann kok wrote:

> I got big bandwidth traffic from outside and there are messages the
> following
> 
> and I don't know what is the meaning! 
> 
> eg: ICMP:52.29 0.108.84.77
> 
> in /var/log/messages

It looks like ICMP packets may be matching a "log" rule in your rule
chain.  Does your ipfw rule set include "log" actions? 

Robert Watson



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