On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 16:00 +0100, Andreas Kunberger wrote:

I've just installed SuSE 6.3 and now I get ever few secods the syslog msg: kernel: martian source cc05eb00 for 32cb2395, dev eth0 kernel: ll header: ff ff ......

Does anybody knon if this is a seurity related msg?

Maybe you want to read some doc. Start with something like: find /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ -type f -print0 | \ xargs --null grep -ln martians /dev/null AFAIK these are packets you really don't expect from the direction they come from (i.e. packets from internal hosts dropping in at the external interface -- just like martians come landing, which is where the name seems to come from). Go and explore the usual firewall doc. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.