I have been receiving these requests which are stopped with _DENY_ rule at the firewall. Now I have adsl connection which is using rp_pppoe and I thought private ip's should not be allowed thru the external interface. I believe this is coming from my isp but is this normal or what Aug 15 16:16:02 gardiyan kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 10.14.9.254:3 212.156.197.144:1 L=56 S=0x00 I=1640 F=0x0000 T=254 (#4) Aug 15 16:16:59 gardiyan last message repeated 2 times Aug 15 16:20:05 gardiyan kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 10.14.9.254:3 212.156.197.144:1 L=56 S=0x00 I=63495 F=0x0000 T=254 (#4) Aug 15 16:26:05 gardiyan kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 10.14.9.254:3 212.156.197.144:1 L=56 S=0x00 I=63495 F=0x0000 T=254 (#4) Aug 15 16:28:05 gardiyan kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 10.14.9.254:3 212.156.197.144:1 L=56 S=0x00 I=63495 F=0x0000 T=254 (#4) Aug 15 16:30:05 gardiyan kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 10.14.9.254:3 212.156.197.144:1 L=56 S=0x00 I=15693 F=0x0000 T=254 (#4) Aug 15 16:32:05 gardiyan kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 10.14.9.254:3 212.156.197.144:1 L=56 S=0x00 I=15693 F=0x0000 T=254 (#4) Aug 15 16:38:05 gardiyan kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 10.14.9.254:3 212.156.197.144:1 L=56 S=0x00 I=40482 F=0x0000 T=254 (#4) -- Togan Muftuoglu