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Old 09-14-2004, 02:15 PM   #1
harmster
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unwanted packets on terminal


Hi all,
Recently I installed a PentiumII in the living room as a mp3 server. I used Debian unstable with a new kernel version 2.6.5. Together with my workstation and NFS everything works like a dream. But if I connect a monitor to the PII it soon gets flooded with messages like:
Code:
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.6 DST=192.168.2.255 LEN=263 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=49 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=243
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.6 DST=192.168.2.255 LEN=235 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=50 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=215
These messages also appear in syslog.
Can someone tell me how to get rid of those messages? They make mp3blaster unreadable.
 
Old 09-14-2004, 03:51 PM   #2
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I can offer a couple of pointers:

1) The log entries look to be from the netfilter package. i.e. iptables

2) The packets referenced are microsoft datagram broadcast packets. i.e. local master browser
announcement, master broswer announcement, one smb host broadcasting for another smb host, etc...

What I can't tell from the log message is wether or not these packets were rejected
or were they accepted and just simply logged. The iptable rules you run on this
system should answer that

If you simply want to stop these messages from being logged to the console, look at:
man dmesg
in particular, the -n option

Otherwise, take a look at your iptable rules and fix the rule thats causing the problem.
 
Old 09-14-2004, 03:57 PM   #3
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That samba part made sense. I'll look into it. Thanks.
 
Old 09-14-2004, 04:03 PM   #4
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btw, how do you see these packets are microsoft datagrams?
 
Old 09-14-2004, 04:54 PM   #5
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SPT=138 DPT=138
port numbers specify 138 which is for netbios datagram
You could also disable netbios over tcpip on all your windows machines too.

Also check in your /etc/syslog.conf file for a line like this
kern.* /dev/console
or
kern.* *
and just comment it out like this by putting a # sign in front of it
#kern.* /dev/console



Last edited by zatriz; 09-14-2004 at 04:59 PM.
 
Old 09-15-2004, 02:28 AM   #6
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I indeed checked the /etc/syslog.conf but found nothing out of the ordinary there. What I _did_ find where some iptables with weird LOG messages, those where no longer necessary and after deleting them my problem was solved! Thank you all for the fast responses and for putting me on track.
 
Old 05-05-2005, 04:23 PM   #7
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Helloo,

I'm having the same problem, but I've found no weird log stuff in the /etc/syslog.conf file to remove (not that I would know what to remove, as I am a newbie)

Here's what I have

3 computers behind a linksys router
computer #1 - wired, fedora core 3 which I am trying to configure using "Setting up LAMP" by two guys named Eric
computer #2 - wired, winxp sp2 sending broadcasts that are being picked up by computer #1 and displayed on the console
computer #3 - wireless, running winxp sp2 also sending broadcasts

The console keeps poping up something like:

IN-eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06.. SCR=192.168.1.101 (or 102) DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=243 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=31118 (changes) PROTO=UDP SPT=137 (or 138) DPT=138 (or 137) LEN=58

Otherthan replacing the winXP OS's with Fedora, does anyone have any suggestions????

This happened after I setup the firewall iptables.

Thanks,
 
Old 05-07-2005, 06:28 AM   #8
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Yeah those log messages aren't alway it. It's been awhile now, but if i remember correctly you should check you NAT pre-routing table with: $:iptables -t nat -L
I believe I found some weirdness there and after removing it things where fine.

Hope this helps!
 
  


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