Bill McCarter wrote:

> To the list,
> I've started seeing some of the following in my Netview traces. I read some
> articles in the archives from 1998
> that explain a liitle bit about it, but I was hoping someone could shed a
> little more info about theses entry's.

> What do the mean or how might they have started? How do I get rid of them?
> I'm running Netview version 6.0, and solaris 2.6.
> Thanks in Advance....

I think unexpected pings are logged when netmon sees a ping response, but
didn't initiate it itself.  It is probably from an external program.  Or maybe
somebody is just doing a ping from the gui or on the command line, possibly
even from another machine to netview.   Test it for yourself.   Watch the
trace file when you ping an address from the command line.  It is normal.  I
wouldn't worry about it.


> 15:17:08 : ./nl_pinger.c[1005] : -> received unexpected ping from
> 172.16.132.15
> 15:17:08 : ./nl_pinger.c[1005] : -> received unexpected ping from
> 172.16.12.10
> 15:17:08 : ./nl_pinger.c[1005] : -> received unexpected ping from
> 172.16.244.1
> 15:17:08 : ./nl_pinger.c[1005] : -> received unexpected ping from
> 172.16.140.23
> 15:17:08 : ./nl_pinger.c[1005] : -> received unexpected ping from
> 192.168.12.1
> 15:17:09 : ./nl_pinger.c[1005] : -> received unexpected ping from
> 172.16.132.15
>
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