On Sunday 09 December 2001 16:58, you wrote: > Conversely, if your router acts as a dhcp server, it needs to > accept the corresponding sorts of requests from dhcp clients on the > relevant interface(s).
Yep, but they're not deny'ed on the LAN side. > I believe the Windows sharing services -- the ones that run on port > 137-139 -- make some use of broadcast addresses as well. I don't > run them here so cannot recall details. These are the NetBIOS ports, the broadcast address (again on the LAN) would be something like 192.168.1.255:139. Again the rule won't deny this. > Unless you want to respond to broadcast pings (and why would you?), > I can't think of any other common services that use broadcast IP > packets. 255.255.255.255 is most likely an Class A DHCP request. For some strange reason, since @HOME has been having random outages, reports of tons of these requests have been made all over. Funny thing is the bulk of the ones I've been getting are from a private class 10.6.1.x address. I just figured someone jacked up their Win2K config.... seems to happen often around here. Aren't the /32 masks reserved for gov & university networks??? ~Lynn Avants [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if linux isn't the answer, you've got the wrong question _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
