From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 6:19:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA59737B41A for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fBDEJHp70386; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:19:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:19:17 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Peter Brezny Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suspicious traffic Message-ID: <20011213151917.B68324@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from peter@skyrunner.net on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:17:25AM -0500 X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message