11-10-2010 12:48 PM - edited 03-04-2019 10:25 AM
Hi,
I am getting following errors on the router :
000040: Nov 10 15:37:28.000: %FW-4-ALERT_ON: getting aggressive, count (4/3000) current 1-min rate: 501
000041: Nov 10 15:37:52.901: %FW-4-ALERT_OFF: calming down, count (0/2500) current 1-min rate: 342
Here is the ip traffic output;
IP statistics:
Rcvd: 7258839 total, 12187 local destination
0 format errors, 0 checksum errors, 1993 bad hop count
0 unknown protocol, 253 not a gateway
0 security failures, 0 bad options, 398 with options
Opts: 0 end, 0 nop, 0 basic security, 0 loose source route
0 timestamp, 0 extended security, 0 record route
0 stream ID, 0 strict source route, 398 alert, 0 cipso, 0 ump
0 other
Frags: 0 reassembled, 0 timeouts, 0 couldn't reassemble
0 fragmented, 2 couldn't fragment
Bcast: 6048 received, 0 sent
Mcast: 0 received, 0 sent
Sent: 35522 generated, 3629524 forwarded
Drop: 121 encapsulation failed, 10 unresolved, 0 no adjacency
27 no route, 27 unicast RPF, 197 forced drop
0 options denied
Drop: 0 packets with source IP address zero
Drop: 0 packets with internal loop back IP address
ICMP statistics:
Rcvd: 0 format errors, 0 checksum errors, 0 redirects, 0 unreachable
742 echo, 0 echo reply, 0 mask requests, 0 mask replies, 0 quench
0 parameter, 0 timestamp, 0 info request, 0 other
0 irdp solicitations, 0 irdp advertisements
Sent: 0 redirects, 10 unreachable, 0 echo, 745 echo reply
0 mask requests, 0 mask replies, 0 quench, 0 timestamp
0 info reply, 7 time exceeded, 0 parameter problem
0 irdp solicitations, 0 irdp advertisements
TCP statistics:
Rcvd: 5376 total, 0 checksum errors, 4695 no port
Sent: 34910 total
PIMv2 statistics: Sent/Received
Total: 0/0, 0 checksum errors, 0 format errors
Registers: 0/0 (0 non-rp, 0 non-sm-group), Register Stops: 0/0, Hellos: 0/0
Join/Prunes: 0/0, Asserts: 0/0, grafts: 0/0
Bootstraps: 0/0, Candidate_RP_Advertisements: 0/0
Queue drops: 0
State-Refresh: 0/0
IGMP statistics: Sent/Received
Total: 0/0, Format errors: 0/0, Checksum errors: 0/0
Host Queries: 0/0, Host Reports: 0/0, Host Leaves: 0/0
DVMRP: 0/0, PIM: 0/0
Queue drops: 0
UDP statistics:
Rcvd: 6142 total, 0 checksum errors, 5990 no port
Sent: 61 total, 0 forwarded broadcasts
OSPF statistics:
Rcvd: 0 total, 0 checksum errors
0 hello, 0 database desc, 0 link state req
0 link state updates, 0 link state acks
Sent: 0 total
0 hello, 0 database desc, 0 link state req
0 link state updates, 0 link state acks
ARP statistics:
Rcvd: 7608 requests, 25 replies, 0 reverse, 0 other
Sent: 37 requests, 2397 replies (17 proxy), 0 reverse
On the output it shows lot of bad hop count. Anybody has any idea by seeing this output what could be the problem?
Thanks.
11-10-2010 12:54 PM
These are firewall alerts, possibly unwarranted.
These have nothing to do with routing.
Bad hop counts are actually an indication of how many traceoutes the router has seen.
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