Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2800 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

riccardo35@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello, Open_SuSErs
>
>  Could someone please enlighten me, as to the meaning of :-
> ...................
>
> Feb  6 14:38:46 AIG kernel: SFW2-IN-ILL-TARGET 
This is an input packet blocked because of an illegal target (as defined
by your config)
> IN=vmnet8 
It came in on your vmware net interface.
> OUT= 
> MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0c:29:6c:3d:e4:08:00 
the from MAC address was all ones, yours was 0c:29:6c:3d:e4:08 Ethernet
> SRC=0.0.0.0 
>   
src IP of the packet
> DST=255.255.255.255 
destination IP address (i.e. broadcast)
> LEN=337 
length
> TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 
not sure
> TTL=128 
time to live
> ID=1 PROTO=UDP 
>   
important, the protocol was a udp packet
> SPT=68 
source port
> DPT=67 
destination port
> LEN=317
>
>   
Summary, this was a broadcast packet from the DHCP server on your
network to your machine, which you are blocking.  There is a config
option to allow broadcasts and not to log them.  HTH.

-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64






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