Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.
On Fri, July 30, 2010 07:35, R. Ramesh wrote:
> My bad, I googled icmp_type 8. It seems harmless and required to be
> implemented. So I am going to accept.
> After filtering out this one, I notice another one coming from my own
> firewall and need to figure out who is sending it.
>
> [2731831.967429] IN=eth1 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.47 DST=192.168.1.255
> LEN=233 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138
> LEN=213
>
> I think this from my nmbd on the outgoing port. I am going to
> investigate interfaces option in smb.conf. Please tell me if I am on the
> wrong path.
>
Seems more like an incoming packet (the OUT interface is blank), probably
a smb server or windows machine sending its broadcast message (notice the
.255 in the destination IP)
Regards,
Steven
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