Probably not the right place to ask,
but on my server in Italy I'm getting a large number of packets
from random addresses, but all on port 55460,
eg today's logwatch had
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Dropped 34698 packets on interface eth0
   From 1.11.233.123 - 1 packet to udp(55460)
   From 1.23.134.180 - 1 packet to udp(55460)
...
----------------------------------
Yesterday
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Dropped 32960 packets on interface eth0
  From 1.22.16.115 - 1 packet to udp(55460) 
  From 1.22.30.108 - 1 packet to udp(55460) 
...
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I'm running shorewall on this CentOS-5.6 machine,
and also fail2ban .

I'm using a Billion 5200 modem/router to connect my server to the internet.
I probably could do something on this to stop the packets
before they get to the server, but would this be worth-while?
I haven't tried programming the Billion at all.

Also, does the port 55460 signify anything?

Finally, is there anything more that I could or should do in shorewall ?
At present I have
---------------------------------
#
# Policies for traffic originating from the Internet zone (net)
#
net             $FW             DROP            info
net             loc             DROP            info
net             all             DROP            info
---------------------------------
in /etc/shorewall/policy .

Any suggestions gratefully received.


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