On Wednesday 31 December 2003 11:29 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
Richard Atcheson wrote:
On SuSE 9.0 running the IP Traffic I see this message quite frequently: UDP (350 bytes) from 10.54.64.1 bootps to 255.255.255.255:bootpc on eth0.
What is going on? Tnx, Richard
Description: bootpc is the bootp client for Linux that will allow a linux machine to retrieve it's networking information from a server via the network. It sends out a general broadcast asking for the information which is returned. It's a broadcast request from 10.54.64.1 looking for a boot server which will issue it with its network configuration and also a boot image. Normally this comes from a diskless client -- it has to have a NIC with a prom that's programmed to initiate the action. I don't know if such a NIC is installed if it tries to boot from the network first and then checks for a local boot device. Regards Sid.
Ok I think I understand its purpose but I have no idea why it is appearing on my eth0 which is my connection to the cable modem. Is this an attempt to break into my machine?? My subnet is 192.168.1.0/24 I have no idea where the 10.0.0. stuf is coming from . Richard