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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:19:17 +0100
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Peter Brezny <peter@skyrunner.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: suspicious traffic
Message-ID:  <20011213151917.B68324@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOCENOEFAA.peter@skyrunner.net>; from peter@skyrunner.net on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:17:25AM -0500
References:  <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOCENOEFAA.peter@skyrunner.net>

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:17:25AM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote:
> Could someone please tell me what this traffic is all about?
> 
> > ipfw: 400 Deny UDP 0.0.0.0:68 255.255.255.255:67 in via dc0

See /etc/services: this is a computer trying to find it's boot server.
This is done via a broadcast to all computers on the same network to find
listening boot servers (which listen on port 67). Unless you are running
a boot server yourself, you don't need to worry about this.

HTH,

--Stijn

-- 
I really hate this damned machine
I wish that they would sell it.
It never does quite what I want
But only what I tell it.

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