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From: MKL@SRI-NIC.ARPA (Mark Lottor)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: icmp overload
Message-ID: <12414041833.17.MKL@SRI-NIC.ARPA>
Date: 13 Jul 88 19:28:28 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
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Over the last two days (at least), 24% of all the packets we receive
are ICMP messages.  Of those, 13% are unreachables and 7% are redirects.
This seems really excessive.  Is anyone else seeing stuff like this?
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