Brad Fritz wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:19:26 +0200 Eric Titl wrote:
>
> > Brad Fritz wrote the following at 17:56 24.07.2002:
> >
> > >On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:42:17 EDT Dr. Richard W. Tibbs wrote:
> > >
> > >.......> dmesg outputs a lot of identical lines like:
> > > > Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 10.1.20.1:67 255.255.255.255:68
> > > > L=328 S=0x0 I=414nn F=0x000 T=255 (#8)
> > >
> > >Nothing to worry about. Just a host on the eth0 side broadcasting
> > >for a DHCP lease.
> >
> > I am not sure it's that irrelevant if an external host with a 10.1.20.1
> > broadcasts for a DHCP lease. It may be misconfigured or we may have a
> > rfc1918 network ....
>
> You're right, Erich, I probably dismissed the rfc1918 traffic too
> quickly. The output of "ip addr show eth0" would shed more light
> on the situataion. I don't have a dhclient machine handy, but I
> believe there is a status file in /etc/dhclient or /var/ somewhere
> (or output in /var/log/syslog) that gives information about what
> dhclient has done recently.
<snip />
/var/state/dhcp/dhclient.leases
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