Strange messages in dmesg after DDoS-attack.

[Mike Silbersack]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Jesper Wallin wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> First of all, thanks for your reply.. Nope, as far as I can see, I only
> got 6 of those lines and nothing more.
>
> I have a fxp0 in my other server, would you recommend me to switch the
> NICs since the server using the xl0 got higher priority than the fxp0 one?
>
>
> Regards,
> Jesper Wallin

All network cards/drivers have some bugs in them, so as long as the 3com 
card survived the DDoS and didn't require the interface to be restarted, 
I'd stick with it.

I think I found how those messages appeared, xl_init is called whenever 
the card sets the flag "ADFAIL", whatever that means.  Apparently it's bad 
and the network driver resets itself when it happens.  So, you're probably 
losing a few packets as a result of the reset, but other than that I don't 
see it causing any real problems.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack