PPPoE weird messaging

cognhuepan · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 17

When I connect to my ISP via pppoe with this instructions http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Connect_using_PPPoE, I get contious messaging like this:

IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx DST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=5344 DF PROTO=TcP PT=2935 DPT=2967 WINDOW=64800 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

The messages change SRC and DST (those are IPv4 addresses) and appear on my tty's from time to time, it's really annoying, I can't even install gentoo.

what does it means?
And, more important, how do I stop this messages?

'so no más

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di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

You're obviously running a firewall of some kind and this is a log of either someone trying to access your PC
or just a random port scan....

The easiest thing to do is redirect all these messages to a file, although how to do this will depend
entirely on what type / version of syslog you have installed...

Most of the time it's nothing to worry too much about though.

-m

cognhuepan · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 17

Thanks for answering, well it's the installation LiveCd of Gentoo, how does the syslog works on it?

From your answer I gather that it has something to do with my ISP.
If you don't know wich syslog comes with the installation disk, how do I find out?

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cognhuepan · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 17

well, I've found a system logger, called syslog-ng, I think this is the one the LiveCd is running, when i checked the version with