unknown message

[David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A.]

It means there is something on the network to which eth0 is
connected that sends packets with addresses that your machine
thinks shouldn't occur on that network.

Here's a Google hit:

<http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security/2004-Aug/0008.html>

You should probably filter these with an appropriate iptables
setup.




--On Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:58 PM -0800 "Sherrett O. Walker" <buznakka at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This appears in /var/log/messages.  Can anyone tell me what it means?
> kernel: martian source 192.168.1.255 from 192.168.1.61, on dev eth0
>
> Thanks.
> SOW
>