[Wylug-discuss] Another firewall problem
Roger Beaumont
roger.bea at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Sep 27 14:24:19 BST 2007
Peter Bingham wrote:
> A quick look at the port names listed shows this to be bootp/dhcp
> requests (from a quick google which found
> http://www.linklogger.com/UDP67_68.htm )
>
> I don't know how your ISP organizes things; mine uses 10.x.x.x subnets
> between the endpoint and the internet for some reason; you may be seeing
> another machine in the area requesting an address as it's done via
> broadcast (and not getting one, hence the repeats).
Thanks for that Peter. In that case, it seems that stopping logging
requests from 10.0.0.0/8 would the solution.
Thanks again,
Roger
(Learning more than I really wanted to know)
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