"Karl J. Runge" wrote:
> This is a good point. You probabably also got broadcast and ARP
> requests too, which is reasonable (although annoying if a neighbor has
> broken machine broadcasting this stuff like mad).
On my MediaHun, er, Hell Atlantic, er, whatever segment there's all
kinds of broadcast/multicast junk. I see boot/dhcp requests, I see
someone thinks they're an NTP server, I've seen someone sending SNMP
junk about once per second where the only thing that changes is the
port number on the *source* addr.
Every now and then I get something directed at me specifically, but
typically it's coming from "securityscan.ne.mediaone.net". They've
poked at port 80 and port 22. Once in a great while some random
person takes a swipe at telnet/ftp/smtp (which of course I drop at
the firewall anyway.)
Haven't turned on the packetfilter to look at what else might be there.
A few years back when I first got the service I casually clicked on
"network neighborhood" on my windoze box and I saw all kinds of
stuff out there. I jumped out of my seat when I saw that, and
started taking steps then to nail down my own net.
I agree with the person who places about as much trust in his
neighbors and ISP, as he does in the rest of the "cloud".
Y'all be careful out there!
-- Farrell
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