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Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 21:59:59 schrieb Vernon A. Fort: |
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> We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics |
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> - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major |
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> problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with |
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> "unknown protocol" which I saw from tcpdump. |
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What protocol number was is? Maybe you could enable the protocol in the Linux |
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Kernel and then filter it and apply routing rules. |
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What is the router doing usually and how did the flooding bring your network |
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down? Maybe just preventing the router from routing unwanted protocols |
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already help and you don't actually need a bandwidth limiter. |
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Sascha |
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