Hi Mani, Hope some Messaging and Conferencing tool is running! You have to check on your machine is there anything running on that port, It is very dangerous if some process opening a port and you are unaware of it. Make sure everything in your system is ok. I did not see any error in ifconfig. Regards Dharmendra T. On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:58, Manikandan wrote: > Hi friends, > > I am running RedHat linux 9 with iptables 1.2.7a. This box acts as a > gateway/firewall for my network. I am seeing lots of packets getting dropped > as well as ifconfig reports error. > > [root@javagreen RPMS]# tail /var/log/messages/ > > Jun 21 11:50:50 javagreen kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:09:6b:19:b4:24:00:0e:83:f6:19:9f:08:00 SRC=64.0.96.12 > DST=202.138.202.218 LEN=84 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=17638 PROTO=ICMP > TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=20225 SEQ=61833 > Jun 21 11:50:50 javagreen kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:09:6b:19:b4:24:00:0e:83:f6:19:9f:08:00 SRC=64.0.96.12 > DST=202.138.202.218 LEN=84 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=17638 PROTO=ICMP > TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=20225 SEQ=61833 > Jun 21 11:50:50 javagreen kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:09:6b:19:b4:24:00:0e:83:f6:19:9f:08:00 SRC=210.224.186.4 > DST=202.138.202.218 LEN=84 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=42 ID=0 DF PROTO=ICMP > TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=52234 SEQ=19095 > Jun 21 11:50:50 javagreen kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:09:6b:19:b4:24:00:0e:83:f6:19:9f:08:00 SRC=210.224.186.4 > DST=202.138.202.218 LEN=84 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=42 ID=0 DF PROTO=ICMP > TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=52234 SEQ=19095 > Jun 21 11:50:54 javagreen named[3251]: client 1 -- Dharmendra T. Linux Security and Admin, www.nsecure.net This message is intended for the addressee only. It may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and destroy the message immediately. Unauthorised use or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited.