Re: Strange netmasks.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:32:21 +0100 (BST)

> Now some MiCrO$oFt garbage, that I can't control, executes a variation of
> SNMP which sends ARP packets to every possible machine on the LAN. This
> happens at two-second intervals.

ARP packets don't cross a PPP link. It must be something else.

> of a subnet. Should I just brute-force filter the stuff in the PPP link?
> Note, I had to do this to get rid of the NETBIOS packets encapsulated
> in broadcast packets that MiCrO$oFt calls Netbeui.

I'd firewall their junk.

Alan