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From: "james.Q.L" <shijialeeee@yahoo.ca>
Subject: what's this in my ip_conntrack
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:55:21 -0500 (EST)
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just curious, i checked /proc/net/ip_conntrack in my gateway computer and found this,

the gateway 192.168.0.1 sends request to all the internal ip (goes on to 192.168.0.254). is it a
network broadcast or what, for what reason ?  .0.1 and .0.3 are alway almost connected to the Lan.


tcp      6 134316 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.255 sport=42750 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.255 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42750 use=1 
tcp      6 134280 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.0 sport=42750 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.0 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42750 use=1 
tcp      6 134286 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.0 sport=42751 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.0 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42751 use=1 
tcp      6 134312 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.2 sport=42750 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.2 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42750 use=1 
tcp      6 134312 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.2 sport=42751 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.2 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42751 use=1 
tcp      6 134312 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.4 sport=42750 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.4 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42750 use=1 
tcp      6 134312 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.4 sport=42751 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.4 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42751 use=1 
tcp      6 134312 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.5 sport=42750 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.5 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42750 use=1 

...... 
...... more .. 
tcp      6 134315 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.0.1 dst=192.168.0.254 sport=42750 dport=80 [UNREPLIED]
src=192.168.0.254 dst=192.168.0.1 sport=80 dport=42750 use=1



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/James.Q.L

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