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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:35:23 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Weird responses to queso on broadcast address...
Message-ID:  <v04220802b5b77ec73c9c@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008091221590.6173-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008091221590.6173-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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At 12:22 PM -0700 2000/8/9, Doug White wrote:

>  You probably have the sysctl 'net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain' enabled so it logs
>  any connection attempts to nonexistent ports.

	Indeed I do.  However, shouldn't these "connections" be shown as 
coming from the various other machines on the same network, and not 
from the broadcast address itself?  It seems to me that there is a 
bug in the way some of these connections are being identified, or in 
the way they're being printed.

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