On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:37:33PM +0100, Anders Hogrelius wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > This is not limited to samba, it's memory for network buffers.
> > Maybe you had a high network activity ?
> >
> 
> Could very well be. It might be caused by some hacker who got pissed off
> when he tripped portsentry and got banned from access to my box.
> Would something like this occur if packet filter is discarding packets
> from someone who's trying to flood my box with junk traffic?

Yes, a flood cat trigger it. The ethernet adapter may receive packets
faster than the system can proceed, so the buffer queue grows up.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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