Sean Covel wrote: > > Awhile back my cable modem started doing something different. I'm on > Comcast and have a SURFboard cable modem. Its IP address is > 192.168.100.1. Every 3 min. it sends out a broadcast message: > > Feb 10 17:23:37 firewall Shorewall:rfc1918:DROP: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:20:40:6d:d6:b7:08:00 SRC=192.168.100.1 > DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=0 PROTO=2 > > Whatever its doing (DHCP maybe?) I really don't care to see it in my > logs every 3 min. I've tried various things to stop it, but I think > since its an rfc1918 address I'm looking in all the wrong places. > > Bottom line, how do I turn off logging of this traffic? >
This is a variant of Shorewall FAQ 14. Whereas in that FAQ, a RETURN entry needs to be added to /etc/shorewall/rfc1918, in your case a DROP is appropriate. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
