Re: [SLUG] Are martians attacking my kernel?

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 10:10:45 EDT


I'm guessing, but I think that the ff:ff:... is IPv6 internet addresses.
Not sure about the rest.

Russell

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 08:22 -0400, Todd wrote:
> Does anyone know what this log entry is saying in English? Do I need to alert the D.O.D.?
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> Aug 3 16:52:16 apollo12 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 255.255.255.255, on dev eth0
> Aug 3 16:52:16 apollo12 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0b:b4:11:0d:59:08:00
> Aug 3 16:52:17 apollo12 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 255.255.255.255, on dev eth0
> Aug 3 16:52:17 apollo12 kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0b:b4:11:0d:59:08:00
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> If I had to guess I would guess a couple of mal-informed broadcast packets?
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