Sorry for replying to myself, but although I don't fully understand what 
was going on I seem to have made the problem stop.

At 11:44 15/01/02 +0000, Julian Church wrote:
>I'm getting a few of these in /var/log/messages per minute.
>
>Jan 15 10:40:14 firewall kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 
>192.168.254
>.254:80 217.149.96.2:61797 L=44 S=0x00 I=23250 F=0x0000 T=60 (#42)

I switched the ADSL router's power off then on about an hour ago, and 
haven't had any of these packets since.  I was getting several of these 
packets per minute so I think it's fair to conclude that the problem has 
been solved.  So it seems pretty certain that the fault was with the router 
somehow.  My guess is that the router started sporadically NAT-ing packets 
again, giving them it's old/default NAT'd internal IP address 192.168.254.254.

I suppose it's worth noting (for the benefit of others who might experience 
similar problems) that the Model 5861 BT-branded ADSL routers that British 
Telecom install when you subscribe to their ADSL service can go 
spontaneously wonky in this particular way.

cheers

Julian


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