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

[Rob Hillis]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 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"?
>   

Absolutely it does.  Warnings of malformed packets are often (as 
mentioned above) symptomatic of network problems.  Fix the network 
problem, fix the warning.