Hi, I had not replies to my earlier WAN Overload? email. Sadly our ISP has simply said that our hardware would not be adversly affected by broadcast traffic. Here is output from our firewall showing many ICMP logs, is it normal to receive so many all within a second? There may well be more, this
MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number: 16516 received from WAN n/w]
MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=1- icmp packet - Source:=217.204.49.146 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [ICMP Type: 8 Code: 0 Sequence number:
16516 received from WAN n/w]MON OCT 02 11:04:05 2006 time="2006-10-02 11:04:05 Mon " proto=6- tcp packet - Source:=213.105.224.17 - Destination:=85.234.133.24 - [Connection unestablished, data arrives Src 36965 Dst 80 from WAN n/w]
... and so on
John