Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:20:40 -0700 From: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel messages Message-ID: <8a8d6445ab23d901018c45b7e5ca5360@prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <7722667.1145629451907.JavaMail.pibu@Z1DROPOFF> References: <e8971f6d1068913169dd073d0c9e72e9@prodigy.net> <7722667.1145629451907.JavaMail.pibu@Z1DROPOFF>
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On Apr 20, 2006, at 7:50 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > jekillen wrote: > (cut) > Not without assistance, most likely ;-). > >> One link is to the inside network and the other is to static ip >> address >> that is assigned but as yet has not been configured on the router to >> receive requests from outside. >> I admit, I am learning at this point. I've been watching the router >> security log and >> have seen just in the last week (as long as it has had the static >> ip's assigned) >> several hundred broadcast amplification attempts blocked. >> And I have been reading my root mail and am now interested in a >> tutorial or >> some published specifics about how to interpret these messages. >> I'm running v6 release on AMD64. I'm setting up to host a web site. >> thanks in advance. >> JK >> PS in the mean time I will be going through what I have already. > > > Generally, "promiscuous mode" is pretty much what you > have guessed ... used in network analysis. Software such > as bpf(4), and higher level apps such as netgraph, tcpdump, > ethereal, etc. use "promiscuous mode" to grab network traffic. > So, the first thing you ask yourself is, have I (or anyone allowed > to be "root") used any of this type of software? > > There might be other explanations, but I'm not suitably > prepared to address them. > > Kevin Kinsey Actually I neglected to mention that I had used tcpdump on this machine but not a 3 AM in the morning. But that is probably what it is all about. JK > -- > The idle mind knows not what it is it wants. > -- Quintus Ennius > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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