>Reviewed the firewall log this morning and discovered that many IRIX based
>(SGI) workstations (source) are using sunrpc service to talk to
>xxx.xxx.xxx.255 (destination). Is sunrpc standing for SUN RPC?, but these
>are IRIX boxes! What is sunrpc?
>
>Is there a way to turn off the broadcast of these workstations?
>
There are two camps of RPC out there.
SUN rpc (also called ONC RPC)
Microsoft RPC.
Most unix boxes use the former.
Do you know what RPC service it is using? A good protocol
analyzer should break it down further. Are the broadcasts
regular or irregular? Could it be a machine broadcasting
to find an NIS server? Could it be rusers broadcast? Those
are two of the more likely candidates.
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