On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 08:04:52PM +0200, Thomas Michalka wrote:
> the link was hold/brought up caused by packets which came from an IP address
> outside of my system, moreover, the IP number is one of my provider's pool!
> The destination also is anywhere in the world.
The IP number is an old one which your machine used to have, but
doesn't have any more. The problem is caused by stuck sockets
which cannot close because they have an old address, and so never
get any answers from the remote end, which would let them close.
Solve this with
echo 5 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ip_dynaddr.txt
for details. You need at least 2.0.34 for this to work
(slightly older if you have a SuSE kernel rather than
straight Alan/Linus).
> But here I'm at the end with my latin (is this a possible phrase in English?),
Afraid not :-).
--
Erik Corry
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