[Thorzdad]

I noticed the following entry in my Netgear router's log this morning:
receive the KOD packet

All I could find via a quick googling is that this stands for "Kiss Of Death", but nothing more than that (at least nothing I understood) What would this log entry mean and is it something I should worry about?

Thanks.

[ghporter]

Kiss 'o Death packets are used by servers that need to throttle polling of heavily used servers. It's a feature of the NTP v4 protocol, allowing time servers to warn users to reduce their transmission rates to the server to prevent the servers from being overwhelmed. While there is so far nothing (that I can find anyway) explicit in NTP v4 that forces the client to throttle back requests, it's apparently implemented in your Netgear router.

[Thorzdad]

Thanks, Glenn.
So, this is something that shouldn't cause any noticeable performance issues, right?