On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 05:47:57 -0500
Harold Grovesteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Why do you care?  Unless you have emperical evidence that this is
> causing a problem, you are trying to control something that does not
> need  to be controlled.

"martian" packets are normally frames which have invalid addresses. A
packet with a martian source address usually means something on your
network appears to be emitting invalid IP packets. What address is the
martian being reported as coming from ?

It's also controllable whether messages are logged.

Alan

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit
http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Reply via email to