I have dsl on eth1 and my local network on eth0. I had a lot of activity on my home network and I used the tcpump to monitor eth0. Also I'm useing ip masq on my redhat 9 box for internet sharring.

I keep seeing this message and can't make heads or tales where it's comming from.

13:20:53.51.2527 ACA80101.ipt.aol.com.1901 > 239.255.255.250.1900.upd 289

Also there is an arp who has *. ipt.aol.com tell *.ipt.aol.com

nobody here is running aol-not even instance messager .
should i disable that port-or whats going on?

thanks for any info

David

1900 is used for AIM. If you have another chat client, such as Trillian it might do a keep-alive to the AIM server even if it's not actually using AIM.