>> Leslie Carr <lc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> When in a firewall filter, packets are rejected (which sends an ICMP
> rejected notice), the routing engine can receive too many of these
> requests, causing the routing engine to "choke" on its backlog of
> requests. 

Leslie, thanks for excellent update! Was is something similar to ICMP
storm caused by unreachables (similar to the problems caused by
subnet-directed packets in the old days) that even ICMP rate limiting
didn't help?

//Saper


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