From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFS over TCP reports strange messags on Fedora FC1
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:30:03 -0500
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To: Guolin Cheng <guolin@alexa.com>
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On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:52, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I got a strange problem on my newly installed Fedora FC1 box. On the FC1 box'es console I got the following error messages:
> 
>   RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x*********** (non-terminal)
>   RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x*********** (large)
>   ... (same, omitted) ....
> 
> 
>   Any one know why? The nfs function seems working fine...

Could be that someone trying to crash your NFS server. The above is the
sort of output you would see if someone is feeding it random garbage.

Only a tcpdump that catches the offending behaviour could tell...

Cheers,
  Trond


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