[plug] Strange kernel messages, is any able to help please?

Chris Griffin chrisg at doladns.dola.wa.gov.au
Thu May 22 11:25:40 WST 2003


Well at least they are strange to me. I am getting thousands (I kid you 
not) of the following messages in /var/log/messages
Can anyone enlighten me as to what they all mean please?
The box is a Mandrake MNF 8.2 system I am trying to set up. For some reason 
it is also ignoring my custom rules?

May 20 23:12:12 dev1 kernel: martian source 151.130.47.255 from 
151.130.40.18, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:12 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:d0:70:00:17:72:08:00
May 20 23:12:17 dev1 kernel: NET: 16 messages suppressed.
May 20 23:12:17 dev1 kernel: martian source 151.130.23.255 from 
151.130.16.38, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:17 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:10:4b:0a:bc:8e:08:00
May 20 23:12:22 dev1 kernel: NET: 19 messages suppressed.
May 20 23:12:22 dev1 kernel: martian source 151.130.40.109 from 
151.130.40.121, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:22 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:03:47:cb:89:61:08:06
May 20 23:12:27 dev1 kernel: NET: 7 messages suppressed.
May 20 23:12:27 dev1 kernel: martian source 151.130.40.109 from 
151.130.40.142, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:27 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:01:02:30:6f:f5:08:06
May 20 23:12:32 dev1 kernel: NET: 12 messages suppressed.
May 20 23:12:32 dev1 kernel: martian source 151.130.40.109 from 
151.130.41.17, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:32 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:21:f9:e1:a7:08:06
May 20 23:12:37 dev1 kernel: NET: 16 messages suppressed.
May 20 23:12:37 dev1 kernel: martian source 151.130.16.158 from 
151.130.16.219, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:37 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:e2:16:45:6c:08:06
May 20 23:12:42 dev1 kernel: NET: 24 messages suppressed.
May 20 23:12:42 dev1 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 
151.130.240.1, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:42 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:60:3e:1b:38:61:08:00
May 20 23:12:47 dev1 kernel: NET: 15 messages suppressed.
May 20 23:12:47 dev1 kernel: martian source 151.130.40.242 from 
151.130.40.193, on dev eth0
May 20 23:12:47 dev1 kernel: ll header: 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:b0:d0:fc:fb:e5:08:06
May 20 23:12:52 dev1 kernel: NET: 13 messages suppressed.

Regards,
Chris Griffin 



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