Martian sources from localhost
I've got a machine running sarge, with a guarddog configued firewall.
I'm getting some related messages in my logs:
Apr 19 09:27:17 localhost kernel: martian source local.ip from local.ip,
on dev eth0
Apr 19 09:27:19 localhost kernel: martian source broadcast.ip from
local.ip, on dev eth0
and
Apr 19 09:27:17 localhost kernel: ll header:
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:10:eth0:mac:address:08:06
I understand why these are martian sources - they're coming from the
broadcast address to my local machine. However do they indicate a
misconfiguration on this local machine, or should I just ignore them?
No other machine on the network is getting these events logged.
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