Sorry, missed that 169 thing.

Wes, the issue is that if a Windows PC is booted and cannot get
an IP address from a DHCP server, it will assign itself an IP
address on the 169.254.x.x subnet.   Because the GNAT Box does
not recognize this IP address, it sends a spoof alarm.

If you assign the GNAT Box PRO interface an alias on the
169.254.x.x subnet with a netmask of 255.255.0.0, the GNAT
Box will no longer consider this to be "spoofed" traffic, and
you can silence the alarms with a block/nolog filter.

See the message thread, "howto filter some Possible spoofs"
for more information.

Mike Burden
Lynk Systems
http://www.lynk.com
(616)532-4985
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 10:45 AM
> To: Wes Stewart; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [gb-users] DNS anomolies
>
>
> At 08:46 AM 12/9/2002 -0700, Wes Stewart wrote:
> >I tried applying all of the suggestions from last week and I am still
> >getting this alarm.  Neither of these addresses are on my LAN.
> >
> >       ALARM NO: 4
> >           DATE: Mon 2002-12-09 08:38:19
> >      INTERFACE: PROTECTED (xl1)
> >INTERFACE TYPE: Protected
> >     ALARM TYPE: Possible spoof
> >      IP PACKET: UDP
> [169.254.78.209/137]-->[199.191.128.104/53]  l=52
>
> isn't the 169 address what windows (98 for sure) assigns when a dhcp
> request fails?
>
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