On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:28 pm, hackhound wrote: > I am using CUPS to print to a shared printer connected to my W2k > machine. I notice the following two lines keep showing up in my > syslog. They appear twice a minute nonstop. That is until I shutdown > CUPS. Once I did that, the error messages went away. I have searched > the net for an answer, but cannot find any solution. I was told to > change my logging level so these messages are no longer logged, but I > don't think that is a good solution. > > Jul 14 19:21:00 home kernel: martian source 192.168.1.255 from > 192.168.1.200, on dev eth0 > Jul 14 19:21:00 home kernel: ll header: > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0d:88:c3:49:b1:08:00 > Unfortunately, IIRC, there is not really any other solution to this issue. The martian source log entry is caused by a routine broadcast that enables the browsing of printer shares on a local network. When you log martian source from the kernel and allow CUPS browsing, you will inevitably get logs of martian source packets as CUPS attempts to broadcast its presence throughout the local LAN segment. You have essentially two choices, disable CUPS browsing so that CUPS doesn't broadcast, or turn martian packet logging off so that you don't see the messages. Either one of these will remove those entries from your log files.
-- Bryan Phinney
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