Hi I have had Netgear DG834g for about two years now. I installed Etch on Mon, and since then I have been receiving email such as TCP Packet - Source:209.112.135.123,50394 Destination: xxxx DOS, never had these before. If I start torrent I am getting 20+ per minute, upon turning on this morning there was three timed at 01:00 etc although router was off. BTW Many thanks for help with line speed problem a while back, I ended up asking Plusnet for MAC, line suddenly went from 900k to 4Mb and dropouts ceased almost immediately. Kind Regards - Nick Daniels
On 8/15/07, Nick Daniels <nick@oldhippy068.plus.com> wrote:
I have had Netgear DG834g for about two years now. I installed Etch on Mon, and since then I have been receiving email such as TCP Packet - Source:209.112.135.123,50394 Destination: xxxx DOS, never had these before.
If I start torrent I am getting 20+ per minute, upon turning on this morning there was three timed at 01:00 etc although router was off.
I'd be surprised it's installing Etch that has caused this - more likely your router has always been trying to email these reports and now it has found an MTA it can use. Which torrent client do you use? The large number of connections, inbound and outbound, can look like a denial of service attack. As for messages at times when it was switched off, I suspect the router doesn't have a battery backed clock (to save costs), and instead does a time sync once connected. 01:00 BST is 00:00 GMT. I'd reconfigure the router to only email really serious problems - what difference does it make knowing that your domestic router thinks there is a DOS attacking going on? Hope this helps, Tim.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:34:25AM +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
Hi
I have had Netgear DG834g for about two years now. I installed Etch on Mon, and since then I have been receiving email such as TCP Packet - Source:209.112.135.123,50394 Destination: xxxx DOS, never had these before.
If I start torrent I am getting 20+ per minute, upon turning on this morning there was three timed at 01:00 etc although router was off.
Check the time on the router (and it should be syncing to pool.ntp.org) and then check that the timezone that it thinks it's in is correct. The one IP you've given us seems to be a US based IP, belonging to an ISP... now, would that happen to tie in with one of the places that you're getting a torrent from/serving to? And, the netgear will let you turn off those e-mails fairly easily from the web interface... Cheers, -- Brett Parker
Hi all Sorry I think I worded the message somewhat wrongly I just wondered why I had started actually seeing the emails
I'd be surprised it's installing Etch that has caused this - more likely your router has always been trying to email these reports and now it has found an MTA it can use.
Seems right, no messages with any other Linux I have used. The timezone is correct,
Which torrent client do you use?
Ktorrent
The large number of connections, inbound and outbound, can look like a denial of service attack. . As for messages at times when it was switched off I suspect the router doesn't have a battery backed clock and instead does a time sync once connected. 01:00 BST is 00:00 GMT.
That explains the message when the router is turned off Will turn them off now.
Congratulations on your effective action there, Nick! Thanks for the advice everbody gave regarding it
(And a months free usage :) ) Many Thanks everbody. Kind Regards - Nick Daniels
On 15-Aug-07 08:34:25, Nick Daniels wrote:
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BTW Many thanks for help with line speed problem a while back, I ended up asking Plusnet for MAC, line suddenly went from 900k to 4Mb and dropouts ceased almost immediately.
Kind Regards - Nick Daniels
Congratulations on your effective action there, Nick! Isn't that what's called a "boot prompt"? Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Aug-07 Time: 10:43:00 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
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