In the last couple of hours we have been getting the following messages on two
AXP 4610 machines running DU 3.2C which are on an FDDI ring. I have not seen
these messages before. We installed the Ping patch a couple of weeks ago. The
size of the packets seems inconsistent with the Ping attacks which (at least
this is my understanding) involve Very Large packets. Has anyone seen anything
like this (especially someone with the ping patch installed who is running on
FDDI)? This does not appear to be impacting performance, at least as far as I
can tell...
kern.log:Nov 19 07:53:11 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 08:33:43 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 08:36:58 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 08:36:59 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 08:36:59 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 08:37:26 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 08:37:53 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 08:38:35 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 09:10:28 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
kern.log:Nov 19 09:11:14 gamma vmunix: faa0: Illegal length, packet dropped;
len = 17
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Sheila Hollenbaugh Sr. Computer Systems Engineer (O-)
Wright State University College of Engineering & Computer Science
Dayton, OH 45435 http://www.cs.wright.edu/people/staff/shollen/
shollen_at_cs.wright.edu Voice: (937) 775-5077 FAX: (937) 775-5009
Received on Tue Nov 19 1996 - 15:57:11 NZDT