Grant <emailgrant <at> gmail.com> writes:
> My site when down for about 10 minutes recently and the only > interesting thing I see in the munin graphs is a massive spike in "TCP > socket buffer errors", specifically "Listen overflows" at exactly the > same time. Is that a clue or just a result of the downtime? Nothing > in the logs. Hard to tell. What I have done in the past is install a hub/switch outside your firewall/DMZ with several systems to perform 'mock tests' via standard penetration tests, packet flooding, DoS, etc etc depending on your suspicions, and pound on your net Pentoo linux is also an excellent tool. hth, James