Hi craig thanx for ur reply , we have recently installed a windows 200 server , & i found out that it is because of this server these messages are occurring now wht do i do to stop this annoying messages , please tell me wht settings i shud do on my linux box or on the win2000 servers so that there wont be any problem on my network. Thankx in advance regards valeed inal Message ----- From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:49 AM & GMT Subject: Re: promt giving lotsa network messages / warnings > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 22:32, valeed wrote: > > hi , > > I have been receiving lotsa messages on my red hat shrike i686 prompt , > > these messages appear even though i am not logged in on the machine > > the message appears like this > > > > IN=eth0 OUT = ff:ff:ff:ff:.........(full mac address) > > SRC= 192.9.200.11 DST=192.9.200.255 LEN= 256 TOS=0x00 TTC=128 ID=2949 > > PROTO=UDP SPT = 137 LEN=236 > > > > the numbers that change every message are from these fields > > > > SRC > > LEN > > ID > > SPT > > LEN > > > > please tell me why these packets display on the prompt & how do i stop these > > warnings or messages appearing on the prompt , why is tyhis happened any > > clue ? > ----- > iptables rejects - logging to screen > > would suggest that you log to syslog or some other file or just drop and > not log at all. > > In this specific case - it would appear that your public ip network has > an ip range of 192.9.200.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and > someone's computer is broadcasting (192.9.200.255) NETBIOS packets > (SPT=137) > > All in all, iptables blocking NETBIOS packets on public IP addresses is > a good thing to do - many bandwidth providers do this for you...many > don't. > > SRC = source ip address > DST = destination ip address > ID = process id > LEN = number of bytes in packet > PROTO = protocol (TCP/UDP/OTHER#) > > Craig > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
