From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 7:51:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lion.dna-is.com (lion.dna-is.com [195.188.49.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D75237B6EC for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:51:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@dna-is.com) Received: from neptune (neptune.skynet.co.uk [212.46.145.22]) by lion.dna-is.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA00354 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:51:41 GMT Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:51:31 GMT From: Scott Culverhouse To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arplookup! In-Reply-To: References: <38ABCCBB3C1.D4C8BSD@lion.dna-is.com> Message-Id: <38AC190310E.D4D2BSD@lion.dna-is.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.25.09 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | > | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | > | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | > | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message