From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Sep 2 16:16:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D045737B422 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (kwoody@rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by rosencrantz.citytel.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA11479; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:16:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth Reply-To: kwoody@citytel.net To: groggy@iname.com Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: signature? In-Reply-To: <200009022014.UAA02138@groggy.anc.ptialaska.net> Message-ID: Approved: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How is your IP assigned? Are you on a DSL circuit? PPPoE? 68 I belivei is also used for DHCP. So unless you use DHCP for sure block the traffic and see what happens.. Keith On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 groggy@iname.com wrote: >>can anyone tell me what the heck my ISP is doing to my machine? >>is it a recognizable signature? they repeat this every >>1-2 minutes - and it does clog my connection a little! >>is it stuff i should allow - or is something strange >>going on? udp 68 is the "bootstrap protocol client". >>i don't know what the heck that has to do with me, >>i don't use dhcp or anything like that ... >> >>please reply off-list as well - i am not subscribed ... >> >>thank you ... >>--- >>this is the full sequence ... >> >>05:13:24.048994 209-193-28-245.adsl.jnu.acsalaska.net.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68 >>05:13:24.049044 209-193-28-245.adsl.jnu.acsalaska.net.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68 >>05:13:24.168796 groggy.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68 >>05:13:24.168828 groggy.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message