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Re: strange packet denial



On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:12:35PM -0400, dzpost@dedekind.net wrote:
> The following report of a denied packet has been appearing about once
> or twice a day in my system logs:
> 
> Jul  4 10:12:48 gateway kernel: Packet log:
>   input DENY eth0 PROTO=2 0.0.0.0:65535 224.0.0.2:65535
>   L=32 S=0x00 I=19572 F=0x0000 T=1 O=0x00000494 (#5)

PROTO=2 means it's IGMP, 'Internet Group Management'.  I have no idea
what that means, though :)

> I think I understand why the packet is being blocked, but I'm more
> more concerned with what it is and where it's coming from.  What does
> it mean for the source address to be 0.0.0.0?  And what is 224.0.0.2?

I'm pretty sure the 224 addresses are related to IP Multicast.  Hmmm, I
guess I can't actually help, but maybe google will now that you have
some keywords :)  Also, there's a debian-firewall list (on this very
server) which is full of nice people who probably know the proper answer
to your question.


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