Re: constant pinging

From: Nick Hilliard (nick@foobar#delete2email#.org)
Date: 10/29/02

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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar#delete2email#.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:31:30 +0000

JM wrote:
> A while ago, I wrote here about my activity light blinking once every ten
> seconds apart. I finally figured out what it was. Pinging...Just constant
> pinging all day long. Even this drowns out the hits on port 137.

And you're sure that this is ICMP echo request rather than LCP echo request? It
looks like the latter. If it is, it's not a security issue, and there might be
an option to turn off logging these requests/replies in your PPP client, if it's
any good.

Nick

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