On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:52:17 -0500, Vox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On September 1993 plus 3576 days Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 12:48 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >> When the important problem-solving is over - (whisper) could someone > > >> explain to me about martians? > > > > > > Sure Anne, they are little green men that come from the planet Mars :-D. > > > > > > Seriously though, my understanding is that they are tcp packets that appear > > > to have no sender. In other words, they have come from nowhere, yet they > > > are everywhere. Some device sends out a packet with an improperly > > > configured header which does not identify the source. > > > > Actually, that's only part of the whole thing :) A martian packet is > > one that comes from a network that shouldn't be sending packets to > > that interface. If you get a packet from 192.168.1.54 on your public > > (ie. internet) interface, it'll get marked as martian because a > > packet from a private interface shouldn't come to the public > > interface. Same happens with improper headers without identifying > > source...they get marked as martians because the interface can't > > confirm it comes from a valid source. > > > > Vox > > I had an experience with martians recently. I was getting connection attempts > from 192.168.100.1. I initially told my firewall to block all invalid addresses, > but a day later I discovered that it was my cable modem (Motorola Surfboard > SB3100). The device had a full Web configuration interface and its own DHCP > server, and I only discovered this three years after buying it! > > I'm not slow, I'm just fashionably late! :)
Reason number 512 on we at least looking at the instructions might be worthwhile *large evil grin* James
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