Re: IP forwarding bug in 2.0.3x ?

Moonshi Mohsenruddin (moonshi@linux.com.sg)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:57:05 +0800


Could it be your server receiving SYN packets? I had the same problem
with my Linux firewall running IPFWADM and REDIR. Once I switched to
using RINETD, it stopped!

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Moonshi Mohsenruddin		moonshi@linux.com.sg
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Geoff Short wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 07:45:45PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Very occasionally, every month or so, the vivid router stops talking to > > > us. Last time it happened, it was found that the vivid had mapped the > > > hardware address of our router to the ip address of one of the office > > > machines. > > > > Could someone be using your addresses wrongly on the other lan ? > > Seems very unlikely but I'll bear it in mind. It usually happens at > odd times of the day, but last time I was reading news from the central > server when it locked up - it was my ip number which came up on the router. > > > > Does this mean our linux machine is sending corrupt packets to the router? > > > > I doubt it. Running arpwatch on both sides of the network may give you clues > > Ok, thanks, > > Geoff > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ever sit and watch ants? They're always busy with Geoff Short > something, never stop for a moment. I just geoff@kipper.york.ac.uk > can't identify with that kind of work ethic. http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~geoff > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu