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

[Chris Griffin]

I will take a look as you suggest. This system is only on our internal 
network and NOT exposed to the Internet at all. What does it mean by 
"martians"?

At 11:32 22/05/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>Chris Griffin wrote:
>>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?
>
>Are you on telstra cable? If so, oodles of martians are common (or so I 
>found when I was connected). You can supress them with a setting in 
>/proc/sys/ipv4 somewhere.
>
>I can't remember if the source part of the MAC address header goes first 
>or last. If first, those could be DHCP broadcasts, ARP requests, etc. Can 
>you do a "tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -w /tmp/dump"  and analyse with ethereal - 
>maybe that'll tell you more.
>
>Craig