On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:17:17PM -0500, Andrew Park wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
> I have two NICs (3com 59x vortex) on my firewall
> (bridge code 0.0.3 + 2.4.14 kernel + 1.2.4 netfilter) this morning there
> was *MASSIVE* amount of probes from outside and at numerous point the
> firewall log gave the following message
>
> eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401.
Have you tried the last item from this?
http://bridge.sf.net/faq.html
> I understand that it appears if the driver cannot handle the interrupt
> within the specified time, but my question, then is what happens to the
> packet that arrived at eth0? Does it get passed through to the other
> interface without being checked my the netfilter rules?
No, a firewall would never do that.
> And for how long does this state last?
Probably until the flood stops :-)
cheers,
Lennert
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