[Nottingham] Network Martians

Cam camilo at mesias.co.uk
Sat Aug 20 20:27:40 BST 2005


Martin

> I have an internet facing NIC that connects via a transparent bridge, so 
> it directly sees incoming internet addressed packets (no NAT).
> 
> In ifcfg-eth0, setting MASK=0.0.0.0 doesn't work as expected. 
> Regardless, Martians are logged for anything coming in.
> 
> I'd prefer not to turn off Martian logging.
> 
> How should that interface be set? Or should MASK=0.0.0.0 be accepted ok?

I'm not sure 0.0.0.0 as a mask makes sense but it might have some 
esoteric meaning. I think if you assign the correct IP and netmask to 
the interface the problems should be solved.

-Cam



More information about the Nottingham mailing list