odd log mesage...looks serious

estover at nativenerds.com estover at nativenerds.com
Sat Dec 25 16:40:12 PST 2004


Have you run any program such as trafshowor iftop, they make that apear in
my logs.
> hello all-
>
> and a happy holiday to all you geeks that are in front of the crt!
>
> I found these log messages in my logs and I am not sure what some of
> them signify.
>
> Dec 23 19:08:39 smtp kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 221
> to 200 packets/sec
> Dec 23 19:08:40 smtp kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 241
> to 200 packets/sec
> Dec 24 05:32:34 smtp kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
> Dec 24 05:32:49 smtp kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled
> Dec 24 05:33:01 smtp kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled
> Dec 24 08:18:44 smtp kernel: fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled
> Dec 24 12:48:57 smtp kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 201
> to 200 packets/sec
>
> I understand the "Limiting closed port RST response". ....but what are
> the promiscuous mode enabled and disabled on my NIC?  I am not doing
> this, so who or what is doing this.  Or better yet, what does this mean?
>   I have a fear that this one is serious.  So what I need is some
> direction into finding out how this occurs and what I can do to stop it.
>
> thanks,
> Bob
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