firewall kernel: martian source 196.xx.xx.xx from 165,146.xx.xx on dev eth0 ???

hi there,

I'v noticed in my logs the following on my Redhat iptables box


firewall kernel: martian source 196.xx.xx.xx from 165,146.xx.xx on dev
eth0
196.xx.xx.xx being the internet ip on eth0

the 165.xx.xx.xx is my ISP up on my machine at home, i noticed these
messages at the time time i tried to connect from my home machine to
the 196.xxx.x.x box
the connection to ssh was timmed out ???

what can this be .. i read about martain messages bing spoof messages.
but the addrss if my ip of my home machine , ISP assigned.

anyone with any idea's ?


Thank in advance for any advice

On 23 Jan 2006 11:40:06 -0800, Vampyre wrote:
> hi there,
>
> I'v noticed in my logs the following on my Redhat iptables box
>
>
> firewall kernel: martian source 196.xx.xx.xx from 165,146.xx.xx on dev
> eth0
> 196.xx.xx.xx being the internet ip on eth0
>
>
> anyone with any idea's ?


http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
martian source in the first box
bit twister in the Author box

unfortunatly that explaination does help me, as i know the 165 address
is a legit ADDRESS, and that it's not spoofed
I'v did some google searches , and no proper answer as to why ???

i'm becomming desperate now.

On 23 Jan 2006 23:07:08 -0800, Vampyre wrote:
> unfortunatly that explaination does help me, as i know the 165 address
> is a legit ADDRESS, and that it's not spoofed

So was the poster's given in the thread.

Did you see the posters solution. He set his /etc/hosts file per
the example and his problem went away.