[asterisk-users] tired of "midget packet received" warnings

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Fri Nov 7 13:48:08 CST 2008


On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:29:20AM +0000, Tim Panton wrote:

> I'd take this warning seriously. It means that your monitoring app isn't
> monitoring what you think it is.
> 
> I always want to know when I get malformed protocol packets in. It is
> always bad news, mostly either a misconfiguration (your case), an  
> attack,
> (ie my firewall is not protecting this service) or a sign of a switch  
> port going bad.
> 
> Fix the cause not the symptom.

Maybe it's me, but I think that "warning" should be regarding a problem
I can fix. Malformed network content does not neceserily fall under that
definition. "notice"?

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