Re: Weird Incoming IP's and port numbers.

From: Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooijat_private)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 14:18:51 PDT

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    On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, West P. wrote:
    
    > I'm using @home internet cable.  I have the linksys cable router + 4 port
    > switch.  This splits the connection to 3 computers in the house.  DHCP is
    > turned off.  The Internal IPs are 192.168.1.x  (2,3,4)... Over the past day
    > I received a couple of weird INCOMING entries in the log.
    >
    > DATE           TIME        SCR       SCR_PORT      DEST         DEST_PORT
    > 08/25/2001 13:24:52  192.168.1.8      80          <my ip address>      3976
    > 08/25/2001 19:04:42  192.168.1.16    80         <my ip address>       4319
    > 08/25/2001 23:25:38  192.168.1.9      80          <my ip address>      4450
    
    My guess is that someone in your neighborhood is leaking out these
    packets. Quite likely because someone is being used as amplifier.
    
    Hugo.
    
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