On Thursday 13 June 2002 08:12, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Eric House wrote:

> > Anyway, here's one entry.  Does this mean anything to any of you?
> >
> > Jun 12 19:26:22 pauling kernel: Shorewall:rfc1918:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT=
> > MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:20:40:64:a1:fd:08:00 SRC=192.168.100.1
> > DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 PROTO=2
> >
> > (My internal networks are 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0.  I'm running
> > Bering rc2 with AT&T cable.)
>
> Some device on the internet side of your router is configured with IP
> address 192.168.100.1 and is sending a multicast packet every three
> minutes. Because the source address is reserved by RFC 1918 and you
> have 'norfc1918' specified for eth0, the packet is being dropped.

This is a monitor built into the cablemodem itself. If you allow
traffic from that address, you will be able to access it via
http://192.168.100.1 and see the monitoring applet. It is safe to 
block it as well.

i hope this helps,
-- 

~Lynn Avants
aka Guitarlynn

guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net
http://leaf.sourceforge.net

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