Re: Re: How to get rid of this firewall error. [Solved]

2010-07-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Thanks for every ones help. I resolved all issues with errors from my firewall. Here is a summary 1) My DSL modem/router periodically pings my machine. If I accept then it queries more about www server, samba server etc. I do not like these requests as I do not know what the modem does with th

Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-30 Thread Steven
On Fri, July 30, 2010 07:35, R. Ramesh wrote: > My bad, I googled icmp_type 8. It seems harmless and required to be > implemented. So I am going to accept. > After filtering out this one, I notice another one coming from my own > firewall and need to figure out who is sending it. > > [2731831.9674

Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread R. Ramesh
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: top posting - iihh ugly ;-p well, it's the netfilter code from the kernel instructed by an iptables rule, that spits out that message. most likely this is a message informing you about a blocked packet. the question is: who/what set this iptables rule to tell

Re: Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
top posting - iihh ugly ;-p well, it's the netfilter code from the kernel instructed by an iptables rule, that spits out that message. most likely this is a message informing you about a blocked packet. the question is: who/what set this iptables rule to tell the kernel to discard such

Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 30.07.2010 02:49, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: It would have helped if I actually include the message :-) Here it is: [2709614.616138] IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:16:e6:84:37:c5:00:0f:db:5c:a0:58:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.47 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=37027 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=

Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
It would have helped if I actually include the message :-) Here it is: [2709614.616138] IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:16:e6:84:37:c5:00:0f:db:5c:a0:58:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.47 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=37027 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=60352 SEQ=0 192.168.1.47 is my firewall co

How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi: My syslog and console window is repeatedly printing the follwing message from my firewall setup. I cannot figure out which program or service is printing this message. My first preference is to modify the source behavior. The second choice is to stop printing the message. I guess I could e