On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 11:52 pm, Vox wrote:
>   Actually, that's only part of the whole thing :) A martian packet
> is one that comes from a network that shouldn't be sending packets
> to that interface. If you get a packet from 192.168.1.54 on your
> public (ie. internet) interface, it'll get marked as martian
> because a packet from a private interface shouldn't come to the
> public interface. Same happens with improper headers without
> identifying source...they get marked as martians because the
> interface can't confirm it comes from a valid source.
>
Thanks, Vox.  It all helps the understanding <g>

Anne


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