On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:55:26 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe said: > > Did you change your IP address in the above report? IIRC, 172.16.*.* is > a block of private addresses. Packets to this address should be dropped > automatically by an upstream router. My guess, therefore, is that these > transmissions are coming from somewhere else in your network---probably a > misconfigured SNMP manager who thinks you're an agent.
I would ask my ISP if it was coming from them or from their upstream provider. I had some odd stuff appearing in my logs once, coming from the same IP address, and it was in fact coming from my ISP's upstream provider. -- Andrew