Re: [PATCH] Add source address to sunrpc svc errors

[Peter Staubach]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:43:33 EDT, "J. Bruce Fields" said:
>
>   
> > Looks like a reasonable idea to me, thanks!  Any objection to just
> > calling it "svc_printk" instead of "svc_printkerr"?
> >
> > I also wonder whether these shouldn't all be dprintk's instead of
> > printk's.  One misbehaving client could create a lot of noise in the
> > logs.
> >     
>
> I shouldn't have to rebuild my kernel with debugging enabled just to see
> who is throwing trash at my machine.  printk(KERN_INFO maybe and/or using
> a printk_ratelimit.
>   

There are a lot of ways to discover who is throwing trash
at your system other than the kernel printing messages.

Tools such as tcpdump and tethereal/wireshark make much better
tools for this purpose.

   Thanx...

      ps
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