I've got a D-Link DI-604 router for my small home network. I have it
automatically send me the log file when it reaches a certain size. In
the last few days, I've been getting a copy of a the log file several
times a day. And it's always the same thing:
Feb/09/2004 22:06:32
Drop TCP packet
You read it like this: for example the first line is telling you that a
machine with ip address 66... is trying to connect to your machine (ip
address 162) on TCP port 8980. The firewall is applying a default
behavior of denying the connection.
The log file shows several ICMP packets,
Wow! Thanks for the quick response and great advice. I've changed my
router to drop the packets instead of deny them. Hopefully that will
deter future things like this from occurring.
As an aside, one thing I've also noticed in the last few days with my
network is that my DSL has gone from
Hmm, you should have this DROP packets. Denying allows them
to see you're at least up. dropping keeps them guessing. I
have this same router. You should set it up for dropping
packets insted of denying. :)
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Damn, sorry. Didn't see someone already told you to just
drop them. Oh well, it's almost 6 AM and I'v had a whole 5
ours sleep in 3 days.
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On Tuesday 10 February 2004 03:19 am, Chris Ruzin wrote:
As an aside, one thing I've also noticed in the last few days
with my network is that my DSL has gone from an average speed
of 75k/sec to 150k/sec. That's T1 speed just about, isn't it?
I haven't upgraded my subscription or anything,
