-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 05.06.2008 01:33, Simon Slater a écrit : | On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:31 +0200, François Patte wrote: | |> Someone in Tahiti is scanning your computer.... No danger though! | I need to learn more about regular security checks and firewalling | before we get a DSL line. I spotted that IP, didn't know where it came | from, but at the moment I don't know what is dangerous & what isn't. | Any pointers to good reading? http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-Quickstart-HOWTO/index.html just open services you need and good firewall rules make a good security. | Jun 5 09:27:01 ipex kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode. | Jun 5 09:27:01 ipex kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Have you some "sniffer" running permanently on your computer? | | I closed down the browsers on the desktop to remove any extra traffic. | This is typical of what happens when requesting the Internet from the | laptop. Can you simply ping some site from your laptop ping google.com and see what happens in the log on your desktop: tail -f /var/log/messages You will the logs while they are recorded in the messages file. FP - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIR5sSdE6C2dhV2JURAoBdAJ4qa/qOsFKoKGBr6RgcReUkKAzV+wCgkpBP cAOqIcZaygHrjvMi4YQQUik= =17ka -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
