Subject: Re: Better sheep patch
From: Charles McLachlan (cim@uk.research.att.com)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 02:46:11 MDT
On Wed, 10 May 2000, you wrote:
>
> Charles McLachlan wrote:
...
> > It will now dynamically set its filter to the source address of the last
> > outgoing IP packet. It starts off accepting everything, then, when it works out
> > what IP address it's going to use, the filter comes into effect and pulls down
> > the shutters.
One thing you should watch is that it sometimes mis-identifies outgoing IP
packets and sets its filter to a silly number (in my case, two garbage bytes
followed by the first two bytes of the real ip address). This means you may see
short periods of network silence (i.e. until another correctly parsed ip
packet is sent).
Watch sheep_net's kernel messages for a clue as to what it's actually doing.
-- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Charlie McLachlan AT&T Research Lab. Cambridge. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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