Re: ip protocol 89

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin@level3.com)
Date: 03/28/03 

From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:43:12 GMT

In article <b620oe$j01$1@news.cytanet.com.cy>,
lightfoots <lightfoot@cytanet.com.cy> wrote:
>I keep getting this alert on zone alarm--
>The firewall has blocked routed traffic from 195.14.134.164 to 224.0.0.5 (IP
>Protocol 89).
>
>Occurred: 311 times between 27/03/03 18:36:04 and 27/03/03 19:27:44
>--
>can someone explain to me whats going on.

That's a router sending an OSPF message to its neighbors. It shouldn't be
routed beyond its local subnet, so if this is coming from the Internet you
should notify your ISP. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Genuity Managed Services, Woburn, MA
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