Julian Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There's also the possibility that the bulk of those packets are from one or 
> two harmless sources that you don't really need to worry about - it's 
> common for cable/ADSL systems to spew forth all sorts of stuff of this 
> type.  If this is the case it might be helpful to fiddle with your firewall 
> rules so these things don't get logged in the first place.

I believe my ADSL provider is quite clean as far as unnecessary packet
spewage goes (and I know my ISP is), but I'll check again.

> I'd be inclined to do the latter, mainly because I only really want stuff 
> that I have to think about in my logs and I find a lot of extra rows of 
> harmless activity often make more important entries difficult to spot, but 
> it's your firewall - you should do whichever you want.

I don't think this applies in my case, but it's a good point to bring up --
thanks.

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Dan Harkless
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