Re: eth0 messages

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

Anson Gardner wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007 11:59, Zdravko Ivanov wrote:
> > Hi, I get this message in the console all the time:
> >
> > Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:13:8f:59:c7:70:00:30:48:88:25:dd:08:00
> > SRC=85.255.168.4 DST=77.70.65.103 LEN=46 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=121
> > ID=56775 PROTO=UDP SPT=14695 DPT=6881 LEN=26
>
> What this looks like to me is that your firewall is outputting to your 
> console. The video driver you use will not be relevant. I may be wrong, but 
> isn't port 6881 a port commonly used by the bittorrent protocol? 

Yes, per the man page for btdownloadcurses.bittorrent:

  --minport portnum
      set portnum as the minimum port to listen on, counts up if
      unavailable (default 6881)

  --maxport portnum
      set portnum as the maximum port to listen on (default 6889)

> > This is since i installed fglrx-driver.
> > I removed it, but its the same.
> > What should i do?
> >
> > P.S. Tried "ifconfig eth0 down" and when it's down the message stops.
>
> That makes sense, as your firewall has nothing to block when your network 
> interface is down.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anson

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Bob McGowan

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