[wplug] syslog messages, what do they mean.

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Fri Oct 17 14:19:23 EDT 2003


This one time, at band camp, Chris said:
> 
> Why is this odd?  Unless the box has dual nics, shouldn't this be correct?
> Just wondering?

It's saying that the connection is to and from the same machine. ie. 
slogin 123.456.789.987 (not slogin localhost or 127.0.0.1)
If that were the case, it wouldn't be a big deal because only one machine 
would be involved, and I wondered what's the big concern then?

Normally firewalls have two different addresses listed, neither of them 
are the IP of the local machine.

-james






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