At 2002-03-10 12:22 -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote: >Haven't we done a FAQ answer for this one? I guess not, since it keeps >coming up. So let me try a first draft of one here, to respond to Jeff. > >Q. What do the numbers reported in log entries of martian packets mean?
Ray, Yes, we have a FAQ (docid 1445) for this. It could probably use a rewrite. Why do I get these martian source messages http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1445&group_id=13751 >A. They are the source and destination IP addresses of the packet, just >written in a hard-to-read form. They are hexadecimal (base-16) numbers, >written with the 4 bytes in the opposite order from what you are used to. >Here is the secret decoder ring for them. > > Reported address: eb02a8c0 > Broken up into bytes: eb 02 a8 c0 > Translated to decimal: 235 002 168 192 > Reverse byte order: 192.168.2.235 > >If you are unfamiliar with hex numbers, they use the characters a-f to >stand for 10-15 respectively. To translate a hex-format byte XY to >decimal, use this formula: > > decimal value = x * 16 + y > > where x = 0 iff X == 0 > 1 iff X == 1 > 2 iff X == 2 > 3 iff X == 3 > 4 iff X == 4 > 5 iff X == 5 > 6 iff X == 6 > 7 iff X == 7 > 8 iff X == 8 > 10 iff X == 9 > 11 iff X == a > 12 iff X == b > 13 iff X == c > 14 iff X == d > 15 iff X == e > >and y and Y have the same relationship as x and X. -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
