Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Strange netmasks. | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:32:21 +0100 (BST) |
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> Now some MiCrO$oFt garbage, that I can't control, executes a variation of > SNMP which sends ARP packets to every possible machine on the LAN. This > happens at two-second intervals.
ARP packets don't cross a PPP link. It must be something else.
> of a subnet. Should I just brute-force filter the stuff in the PPP link? > Note, I had to do this to get rid of the NETBIOS packets encapsulated > in broadcast packets that MiCrO$oFt calls Netbeui.
I'd firewall their junk.
Alan
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