Use built-in firewall rules to specifically "drop" broadcast packets from that specific server without logging them. Use IPCHAINS or similar.
Also, check that maybe you already have this firewall active and it's trying to LOG all those packets to the syslog. If it's really sending out a barage of packets, maybe the kernel is too busy trying to log to syslog all the rejection notices. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rjmunson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: [suse-sparc] Broadcast traffic halts system > All, > > I am new to sparc based linux and this problem is troubling me. I have a > sparc10 running SuSE 7.3, kernel 2.2.20. It is on a network with several > other machines, one of which happens to be a broadcast web server. Every > time the broadcast server goes through an test run, flooding the network > with packets, my ss10 locks up. It will accept a ping, however all > services, ssh, httpd, ftp are either hung, or not responding. Even the > console is hung, it will not allow a root login. The only way I have found > to resolve the situation is to power cycle the system. From what I > understand of broadcast traffic, each machine that gets the packet must > respond. Is there any way I can shut this off or reject these packets? > Does anyone else have some input that might help me. > > Thanks in advance. > Ryan > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
