On Friday 12 July 2013 23:11:13 Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > > Perhaps the firewall is eating the packets? > > The `filter' table of iptables has the FORWARD chain. If it is empty > and set to policy "DROP", then the firewall will drop all packets to be > forwarded.
As I said in a previous email I though I had solved the problem by dicarding some sanity check rules. I had the system running fine for a day then sudddenly I keep getting these flood of lines like the below in /var/log/messages:- (remark the internal net does not use the 192.168.2.0/ subnet ) ###################### Jul 16 13:37:50 biker kernel: [ 57.617604] IPv4: martian source 192.168.2.254 from 192.168.2.1, on dev eth1 Jul 16 13:37:50 biker kernel: [ 57.622549] ll header: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 ........Oj}... ########################## I have checked the 48-bit mac code wich I gave as as 11 22 33 etc does not represent the MAC address of the NIC asigned as eth1 ( or any ther NIC on tjhe mchine. ) I also put a line such as iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.254 -j DROP (or some such ) but it made zilchdifference. Is this done by the by the isp or the phone company or what? suggestions welcome any ideas? and what is a martian source ? comments welcomed sincerely luxInteg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
