Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:21:36 +1100 (EST) From: <nick@FERALMONKEY.ORG> To: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unwanted packets in secure mode Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902281017170.18861-100000@shibumi.feralmonkey.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902261636330.25751-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
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The following will help you locate where these packets are coming from.
# tcpdump -i <interface> udp and dst host <your ip> and dst port 514
Nick
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On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Brian Handy wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm running syslogd in secure mode ("-s" option in rc.conf), and I got
> these messages today:
>
> Message from syslogd@lambic at Fri Feb 26 16:01:57 1999 ...
> lambic syslogd: discarded 1 unwanted packets in secure mode
>
> Message from syslogd@lambic at Fri Feb 26 16:01:57 1999 ...
> lambic syslogd: discarded 2 unwanted packets in secure mode
>
> ...
>
> I discarded 8 packets, all told. I recognize I asked syslogd to discard
> these, and sure enough, if I look at the syslogd man page, that's what it
> says it's supposed to do.
>
> What's it doing? Any way to tell where these are coming from? Should I
> wonder about this?
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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