strange message from syslogd

Lorenzo Taylor lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net
Sat Jul 2 00:15:43 EDT 2005


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I have just installed a new firewall and am receiving this strange message from
syslogd sent to all consoles:

Message from syslogd at taylor at Sat Jul  2 00:06:44 2005 ...
taylor vmunix: <4>IN-unknown:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:2a:ce:24:54:08:00 SRC=10.40.32.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=395 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID
=9790 PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=375

This is one example.  They come 3 or 4 times a day and all look similar to this.

It may seem like a N00B question, but is this a problem?  Can I stop the messages
from being written to all consoles and only have them logged?

Another N00B question: What is this message saying happened to the packet?  Is it
being dropped, accepted and logged or something entirely different?  There is a
corresponding syslog entry that looks exactly the same but without the message
header.

Thanks for any help,
Lorenzo
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