WAG54GX2 :: Load Avg. and /var/log/messages garbage

Hello Group,

Equipment: WAG54GX2 SRX200 - Latest Firmware (V1.00.09) Wifi: Enabled, SSID Hidden, Mac Address Filtering Active, WPA Encryption

The problem:

Accessed the router through command line (telnet) as usual to check various stats. Noticed that load average as follows:

-------Extract of Sysinfo-------- # sysinfo Number of processes: 35 6:12pm up 1 day, 8:51, load average: 1 min:1.44, 5 min:1.33, 15 min:1.27 total used free shared buffers Mem: 29600 17088 12512 0

2700 Swap: 0 0 0 Total: 29600 17088 12512

-------Extract of Sysinfo--------

Issued ps-aux and not abnormal process was noticed but the load average appear to be constant at above values over 1, 5 and 15 minutes which indicate an overload on router.

Checked the 2 wireless connected computers and nothing appears abnormal. On one of the wireless computer, I am performing a large file download consuming full bandwidth of the connection but that should not trigger the router load to this level.

Finally checked the /var/log/messages and there appear to be some in some order garbage that is not meaning anything or indicating an attack as below extract shows:

---/var/log/messagess--- Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x81542140: B7 B3 2A 1B 8C FD 0D 88 E8 8F B1 01 51 7E E1 98 Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - F 10 D7 60 Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x81331590: A3 67 2E DA 9E 8D 75 84 AE A4

21 A5 8A 54 FC 28 Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x813315A0: C6 87 34 60 F0 9B CF AE 20 FA 53 94 3C 91 8E EA Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x813315B0: A9 80 FB A7 BE 42 54 94 E3 CA CF 21 94 73 4F 99 Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x813315C0: 81 5F D3 6F 39 0A 63 5E 85 39 22 D5 32 28 27 AF Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x813315D0: 09 C0 83 BA DB A8 F4 12 48 2C C6 51 86 4F 7D CB Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x813315E0: BE 61 CC 11 95 2A EA 4E 1D 21 AA 12 2C 6D 0E 8B Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x813315F0: D7 B0 D4 AD 9E 7C DE 77 47 B0 6D 05 DD 38 94 76 Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x81650180: 00 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 2A 5F 00 Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x81650190: 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Fri, 2007-08-03 21:18:12 - 0x816501A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 42 00 00 00 13 CE CB

---/var/log/messagess---

Questions:

  1. What is causing the increase of the load, is it the download of a large file?
  2. What can be interrupted from above messages.

Thanks in advance.

-aljuhani

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