On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Hemsley, Trevor wrote:
> I have searched the web and found that there is at least one Cisco bug (CSCdt86655)
> that causes this error message but this router has that fix on it. The Cisco
> descriptions of this error message say that there are too many UDP packets for a
> particular port arriving within a short space of time - 1ms is the time mentioned in
> the reports I read. I've looked at the plugin source and it appears to work by
> looping through all the defined community names within it and sends out packets for
> all of them with no pause between them. Once it has sent out a packet for all 45
> community strings that are embedded within it, it waits for responses from each of
> them. I suspect that it is this methodology that causes the error message - perhaps
> it should either wait for a short time after sending each packet or it should send
> one/receive one not send 45/receive 45!
The problem is that if you send one / receive one, you are typically
looking at a 45 * 5 seconds total running time, which is way too much.
I'll insert a sleep() every N packets sent, that may solve the issue.
-- Renaud
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