Re: what the $#@*

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister@localhost.localdomain)
Date: 12/12/01 

From: BitTwister@localhost.localdomain (Bit Twister)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:48:20 GMT

In article <gdif1ucltqhfdopm77uqo9hgksp3r482so@4ax.com>, Brad Olin wrote:
>
> what is this? The mac address is not valid because it has way too many
> bits.
>
> Dec 12 12:56:40 ns1 kernel: INPUT DROP tcp IN=eth0 OUT=
> MAC=00:50:8b:6c:cb:19:00:02:16:64:94:79:08:00 SRC=12.237.169.255
> DST=XX.XX.XX.XX LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=109 ID=1633 DF PROTO=TCP
> SPT=1204 DPT=80 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0

Well if you are using dhcpc, do a
cat /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info

You may notice that the first half matches
DHCPCHADDR = Client's mac and the
DHCPSHADDR = dhcp Server's mac matches second half

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