On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Alan Sobey wrote:
> Hi all,
>> I've a linux box acting as a router (to the internet, via ppp), ipmasqing a
> few windows machines. The linux box is configured to disconnect after 10
> min idle time. Either due to the linux box running samba, or the windows
> boxes, netbios requests are broadcast on udp port 50 every 5 minutes as
> shown below, with 4 packets each, thus preventing a timeout.
>> e.g. From tcpdump:
> 23:25:05.733254 159.134.218.154.netbios-ns > 255.255.255.255.netbios-ns: udp
> 50
[...snip...]
>> 1) Why port 50, shouldn't it be one of netbios udp ports 137-139 as listed
> in /etc/services? If this is a case of RTFM, just say so, good pointers are
> appreciated.
That '50' at the end is the length of the packet, not the port.
(I can't remember if this includes the UDP headers or not.)
Kenn
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