[H-GEN] bombardment

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Martin C wrote:

> now how do I fix it :)
> I cant see how this is possible,
>
> my biggest problem is the slow downs, would the kernel rejecting requests
> constantly result in slow performance?

It could, perhaps.  If either you open up UDP port 68 on the
server, or change the logging to not match it or reduce the
logging rate, you wouldn't see those messages anymore.

The other option would be to track down what is generating
those packets, and stop it.

There'd have to be quite a few packets being denied for it to
make that much of a difference, however.

Thanks,
Brad
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