Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:37 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: How might I track this address? Do an ifconfig -a from your machines and that will give you the MAC address of the machine. Just match them to the one from the martian source. It looks like for some reason my ISP is responsible.

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-05 Thread Terence Golightly
Bryan, On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 20:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 05 March 2004 07:44 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: They appear to be a regular pattern You can check the timestamps, patterns are like clockwork although you may have multiple sources that may throw it off. Another

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 05 March 2004 09:24 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: The capture session could not be initiated (socket:Operation not permitted). Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that you have proper interface or pipe specified. I ran it as user. Does it need to be run as

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-04 Thread Terence Golightly
Bryan, I just turned Shorewall on after modifying the /etc/X11/interfaces and a shorewall restart from a root console. On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 04 March 2004 08:28 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: I get the kernel martian messages but they seem to be eminating from my ISP or another source. I'll post the messages below: kernelmartian source 151.201.29.xxx from 151.201.29.1 on dev eth0 The first IP is the

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-04 Thread Terence Golightly
Bryan, Thanks for your quick reply: On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 21:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2004 08:28 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: I get the kernel martian messages but they seem to be eminating from my ISP or another source. I'll post the messages below: kernel

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-04 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan, I just turned Shorewall on after modifying the /etc/X11/interfaces and a shorewall restart from a root console. On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently

[newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you remove them. I just spent the better half of a day

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Let's see... $ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets(0) Is this how you disabled the martian log? It made me crazy for some time after installing shorewall in MDK9.1 I'd be insterested in what you found. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay,

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:04 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Let's see... $ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets(0) Is this how you disabled the martian log? It made me crazy for some time after installing shorewall in MDK9.1 I setup a

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:37 am, Mike Fehse wrote: Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet connection? No, kernel logging of martian source packets which are packets that are expected to come from a particular route but are

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:37 am, Mike Fehse wrote: Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet connection? No, kernel logging of martian source packets which are packets that

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:33 pm, Mike Fehse wrote: Some times it is after a nasty day of mblaster, code_red, and so forth, that some of our users find the little green guys in the IDS logs. Those would be the kind that you actually do want to be logged since it can be evidence of

Re: [newbie] martian source in syslog

2003-07-21 Thread Sharrea
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:29, Sharrea wrote: Recently I got a satellite internet connection which uses a PCI Telemann Skymedia 200DPA card. It was working fine until a few days ago when suddenly all packets received via this card are dropped by the kernel with the 'martian source' messages in

Re: [newbie] martian source in syslog

2003-07-21 Thread Sharrea
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:19, Sharrea wrote: Just thought I'd let everyone know in case it happens to someone else: the answer was to issue the command (as root user): echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter Oops, forgot to mention: see kernel docs- Configure.help from line 5220 Sharrea

[newbie] martian source in syslog

2003-07-19 Thread Sharrea
Hi Recently I got a satellite internet connection which uses a PCI Telemann Skymedia 200DPA card. It was working fine until a few days ago when suddenly all packets received via this card are dropped by the kernel with the 'martian source' messages in syslog: Jul 20 09:22:40 tbird kernel:

RE: [newbie] martian source on syslog

2002-11-18 Thread Franki
: Monday, 18 November 2002 10:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] martian source on syslog Thanks, but I am already behing a company firewall. I only want to stop the kernel from logging the martian source message to prevent the syslog from filling up with useless messages. Can that be done

RE: [newbie] martian source on syslog (YOUR ANSWER SIR!!! )

2002-11-18 Thread Franki
Of Raffaele Belardi Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 10:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] martian source on syslog Thanks, but I am already behing a company firewall. I only want to stop the kernel from logging the martian source message to prevent the syslog from filling up with useless

Re: [newbie] martian source on syslog (YOUR ANSWER SIR!!! )

2002-11-18 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Wonderful, thanks a lot, it did the trick! I am always amazed of how easily can Linux kernel be reconfigured, provided you know how... :-) Could you post the link you found? Thanks again, you where very helpful! raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this line: echo 0