On Monday 03 December 2007, Allen Weiner wrote: > > One of the other suggestions I remember reading had to do with the > > lease time. I think the idea was to figure out if the lease time was > > about two hours (I.E. 7200 seconds). Have a look at the files in > > /var/lib/dhcp3/ and see if those exist and what the dhcp-lease-time in > > them is. If it just happens to be 7200, that would be overly > > coincidental. > > When I was using DHCP, my lease time was 86400 (24 hours). In the > threads on comp.os.linux.networking, "Bit Twister" had me switch over to > a statically assigned IP address of 192.168.1.150.
That settles the possibility of it being a DHCP related issue. After switching to using a static IP, what DNS servers did you enter into /etc/resolv.conf ? > Here is a sample of what I've concluded to be Verizon probing frequently > to see if I'm using a server. Do you think my conclusion is wrong? > > Nov 11 17:14:06 alweiner kernel: Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:07:e9:01:b2:09:00:18:3a:53:f7:fb:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 > DST=192.168.1.150 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=3767 DF PROTO=TCP > SPT=1197 DPT=80 WINDOW=8192 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 SRC=192.168.1.1 (the router), SRC port = 1197 DST=192.168.1.150 (Fedora 7), DST port = 80 SYN bit is set, so this should be a packet for connection initiation. Sure looks fishy. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
