Hello At 23:51 24.07.2002, you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:19:26 +0200 Eric Titl wrote: > > > Hi > > > > 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. That information would also help us >understand what's going on. Dr. Tibbs did say in an earlier posting: > > > IPSEND=24.yyy.xxx.56 /* latest external IP via the cable modem & > > dhcp, anonimized for our protection */ > >so I assumed (and we all know what that stands for) that he was >assigned a public address. I think we are all living here on assumptions and the time spent on this particular problem suggests a more problem oriented approach 1) unless there is specfic reason I would move to a recent dachstein floppy (just because) 2) we need more info as specified in http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1891&group_id=13751 3) unless I missed it the name of the ISP, someone else on the list might have information.... HTH Erich THINK P�ntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
