RE: What's this?

From: Fernando Germano (fgermano@audiotel.com.ar)
Date: 11/26/01


From: "Fernando Germano" <fgermano@audiotel.com.ar>
To: "Mike Silbersack" <silby@silby.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:20:53 -0300


Actually we're on it, we're testing 4.4 ;)
 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Silbersack
Sent: Viernes, 23 de Noviembre de 2001 07:21 p.m.
To: Fernando Germano
Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: What's this?

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Fernando Germano wrote:

> I've found many of these, are these the result of a portscan or something
> like that???, how do you read this line???
>
> Nov 23 11:11:50 server /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 187/100 pps
> Nov 23 11:11:51 server /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 264/100 pps
>
> Thanks you
> Fernando

It's probably just a portscan. Do not worry about it.

Instead, worry about the fact that you're running an old release, and
consider upgrading to 4.4 for the zillion other (legitimate) security
issues that have been fixed.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

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