I made one small adjustment to the iptables rule that Don suggested because several messages were still being written to std-error
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -s 127.0.0.0/8 -i eth0 -j DROP I also added iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 0.0.0.0 -i eth0 -j DROP After being ineffect for about an hour iptables -t nat -v --list reports 123 and 142 packets dropped respectively. --Brandon P.S. in the process of working through this problem I found a good iptables tutorial at: http://people.unix-fu.org/andreasson/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------