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Re: Speaking of broadcasts, is this a security threat?



On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:08:04PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:53:53PM -0600, Scott wrote:
> > 
> > > > >
> > > > > Every few minutes I see the following show up in my log:
> > > > >
> > > > > Aug  8 00:03:17 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> > > > > +10.0.0.1:1999 255.255.255.255:1999 L=94 S=0x00 I=638 F=0x4000 T=1 (#4)
> > > > > Aug  8 00:49:40 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> > > > > +10.0.0.1:1999 255.255.255.255:1999 L=94 S=0x00 I=639 F=0x4000 T=1 (#4)
> > > > > Aug  8 00:03:17 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> > > > > +10.0.0.1:1999 255.255.255.255:1999 L=94 S=0x00 I=638 F=0x4000 T=1 (#4)
> > > > > Aug  8 00:49:40 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
>                                                                    ^^^^^^^^
> 
> > -This was a TCP packet
> 
> Wrong, it was UDP.  RFC 1700 can help here.

or /etc/protocols.


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