Log spam: Limiting * response from 1 to 200 packets/sec

[Eivind Nicolay Evensen]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:48:59AM -0600, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> On 12/13/2016 09:24, Michael Butler wrote:
> > Any hints as to why all of my -current equipment is complaining like below. Is
> > there a sysctl to moderate/turn this off?
> > 
> > Dec 13 10:00:01 archive kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 1 to 200
> > packets/sec
> > Dec 13 10:00:21 archive last message repeated 13 times
> > Dec 13 10:02:21 archive last message repeated 18 times
> > Dec 13 10:06:21 archive last message repeated 36 times
> > Dec 13 10:07:11 archive kernel: Limiting icmp ping response from 1 to 200
> > packets/sec


I repeated that on the nearest 10.0 here, because this looked strange, and
indeed I see:
Limiting icmp ping response from 294 to 200 packets/sec


However, the quoted line above that says it is limiting from 1 to 200
doesn't sound much of a limit?

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Eivind N. Evensen