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Re: mysterious ipchains deny from 192.168.*.* ??



On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:

> here's a logcheck message i got recently, where ipchains is
> logging certain unwelcome hits (based on what's primarily the
> default ipmasq filtering rules)--
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from root <root@serensoft.com> -----
> 
> Security Violations
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Apr  8 17:45:10 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 172.149.223.27:10 224.0.0.2:0 L=28 S=0x00 I=11290 F=0x0000 T=128 (#7)

PROTO=1 means that it was an ICMP packet. Someone is trying to ping you.

Look at /usr/include/netinet/ip_icmp.h for an explanation of ICMP types. The
type is listed after the : on your host address.

Type 0 is ICMP_ECHOREPLY

-B

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Brandon High                                     armitage@freaks.com
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