From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 9 14:58: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F4437B561 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dialup275.brussels.skynet.be [195.238.20.19]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B28DA65; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:57:55 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:35:23 +0200 To: Doug White From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Weird responses to queso on broadcast address... Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:22 PM -0700 2000/8/9, Doug White wrote: > You probably have the sysctl 'net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain' enabled so it logs > any connection attempts to nonexistent ports. Indeed I do. However, shouldn't these "connections" be shown as coming from the various other machines on the same network, and not from the broadcast address itself? It seems to me that there is a bug in the way some of these connections are being identified, or in the way they're being printed. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message