[Dxspider-support] Update - Using Mandriva 2006 now

[richard]

Dan Bookwalter wrote:
> Ok... i went ahead and downloaded the boot.iso for
> 2006 went through the install procedure which went
> flawlessly , then installed spider , after a couple of
> hiccupps (due to me overlooking a couple of lines in
> the spider docs) spider was off and running with a
> minor permission problem that i fixed.
> 
> but then , i looked at my firewall and discoverd that
> the newly installed Mandriva 2006 appears to be doing
> a Smurf attack against my firewall ??? this is the
> what the Zywall2 says.
> 
> Date/Time12/06/2005 08:08:07  
> Source  192.168.1.34 (this is the Mandriva 2006
> address)
> Destination 192.168.1.255 
> ATTACK smurf ICMP(type:8, code:0)
> 
> this is going on every 5-20 minutes....
> 
> any ideas ??
> 
> Dan N8DCJ

Check if you have LISA or KAT running, but as its a ICMP packet check /var/log/syslog
other services that will try the broadcast address are CUPS & NMBD.
HTH
Richard