Look at the log entry from IPTables below:


Dec 15 10:40:23 blackout kernel: ***SSH connection:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0d:61:C5:76:b1:00:04:75:a0:d1:db:08:00 SRC=x.x.x.x DST=x.x.x.x LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=15253 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=9453 DPT=22 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0


The MAC address field seems to be divided into

source: 00:0d:61:C5:76:b1
dest:   00:04:75:a0:d1:db

and an 08:00 on the end (2048 in decimal). What do these extra two bytes signify? I notice this on almost all hosts that are filtering/logging with IPtables, but I couldn't concoct the appropriate Google query to get the answer. :)

Thanks,
Jeff

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