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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:51:31 GMT
From:      Scott Culverhouse <bsd@dna-is.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Arplookup!
Message-ID:  <38AC190310E.D4D2BSD@lion.dna-is.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002171024410.91789-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
References:  <38ABCCBB3C1.D4C8BSD@lion.dna-is.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002171024410.91789-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>

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That's exactly what we were thinking, we certainly have not defined
255.255.255.0 as an IP ;-). I am guessing that someone is trying some
sort of hack!

Any comments would be welcome!


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:25:25 -0500 (EST)
Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net> wrote:

> Why is someone attempting to send packets to the netmask, otherwise, I
> hope you didn't define 255.255.255.0 as a valid IP address.
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Scott Culverhouse wrote:
> 
> > On our firewall we get messages to the console/syslog as follows:-
> > 
> > arplookup 255.255.255.0 failed: host is not on local network
> > fw /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt
> > 
> > We have not made any changes, is this a configuration problem or as we
> > suppect is someone trying something wierd.
> > 
> > Any comments would be welcomed!
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> > 
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