Re: strange broadcast packets
Hi Phillip
On Dienstag, 10-Jun-03 at 19:59:40, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
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> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 07:21:25PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> isn't perhaps 10.208.64.1 your dhcp server and aren't this reply to
>>> dhcp requests from clients?
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>> No lan here.. !!
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> That IP address might be used by your cable modem service as an
> internal management address to hand out IP addresses. Or it might even
> be your bridge (cable modem). In either case. This is not something to
> be worried about. In fact I made a special rule in my iptables so such
> packets don't get logged.
Cool, thanks a lot for your help!!
So, can I happily block them? As it
seems, unfortunately I have to keep udp port 68 stateful open, to renew
the dhcp lease, no?
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All the best, and really thanks a lot for your answers,
Andi
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