Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:00:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: pirat sriyotha <pirat@center.oaep.go.th> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: arpwatch: sent bad addr len Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807211359540.8360-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980721111705.1153A-100000@parwati.oaep.go.th>
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, pirat sriyotha wrote: > > > what effect if my machine get some message from arpwatch that says > > > > > > arpwatch: 8:0:20:21:90:25 sent bad addr len (hard 6, prot 170) > > > > > > this message repeats for nearly this afternoon. > > > > > > can one stop such a kind of message ? > > > > Go to whatever machine 8:0:20:21:90:25 is and figure out why it's doing > > it. > > > > that is center. the machine is center, the same center as center that > appear in my e-mail addrress. and the name server too. > > what i did was to inform sysadmin after getting your answer. but such a > things still happens quite often. okay. > > Probably playing IPX games. > > > > can one use ipfw, deny all from such_a_machine to my_machine, to stop > a similar things ? Actually, stop using arpwatch or hack arpwatch to either ignore that number or comment out that error message printf(). I don't use arpwatch so I'm unfamiliar with it's features. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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