On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:52:28PM -0300, Peter Marshall wrote: > Below is a message I get in my messages file. Basically, there is a company > going to lease space from us. I know it would have been easier to just > stick another card in my firewall and give them a subnet, however, that is > not possible for our setup (long story). Anyway, I bult another firewall > for them. This firewall sits within our internal network (physically) and > has 2 network cards. The firewalls internal network card is for their > netowrk; 192.168.90.0/24, The external card has a network of its own > 10.90.0.2. My internal firewall has a sub interface eth0:1 with the number > 10.90.0.1 (eth0 is 192.168.200.1 and is the gateway to my companys internal > network). > > What I am doing at the moment is ssh'ing to the newly created firewall > called rubidium on port 15422. I get the following in my messages file. > Does anyone know how to correct this problem. It does not prevent me from > sshing, however, I would prefer to not have errors in my log files. > > Oct 19 14:46:05 rubidium kernel: REJECT: INPUT IN=eth1 OUT= > MAC=00:50:04:9b:7a:ee:00:50:04:68:df:06:08:00 SRC=10.90.0.1 DST=10.90.0.2 > LEN=484 TOS=0x10 PREC=0xC0 TTL=64 ID=58050 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=5 CODE=1 > GATEWAY=192.168.202.73 [SRC=10.90.0.2 DST=192.168.202.73 LEN=456 TOS=0x10 > PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=7787 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=15422 DPT=2510 WINDOW=8576 > RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0 ] machine 10.90.0.1 is sending an ICMP Redirect message to 10.90.0.2 saying that the next hop for 192.168.202.73 is 192.168.202.73... if you don't want to see these logs: (a) disable the sending of ICMP Redirects on 10.90.0.1: sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.send_redirects=0 (b) drop, but don't log "-p icmp --icmp-type 5/1" on 10.90.0.2 (c) accept, and don't log "-p icmp --icmp-type 5/1" on 10.90.0.2 if it were me--i'd opt for "a" -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>