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Re: possible bug in IP-forwarding

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Jun 9 08:48:28 1995

From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at (Herbert Rosmanith)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:43:34 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, hanusch@edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
In-Reply-To: <199506080133.DAA24232@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at> from "Herbert Rosmanith" at Jun 8, 95 03:33:37 am

> greetings,
>   this one looks like a possible bug in the ip-forwarding code. kernel version
>   1.2.9.
> from portmap, I get the following entries very frequently.
> 
> > Jun  8 02:10:49 linux1 portmap[3982]: connect from 140.78.58.5 to callit(300214):
> >                                       request from unauthorized host

Its broadcast traffic. Rwho etc. The behaviour is correct.

Alan

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