unauthorized access attempts to my PC

[sys-eng]

The sygate firewall on my PC keeps blocking unauthorized access attempts. BellSouth DSL support has been useless. I would appreciate any help or clues that you can offer.

Below are the details:

Direction = incoming
Protocol = UDP
Remote Host = 0.0.0.0
Remote Port = 68
Local IP = 255.255.255.255
Local Port = 67

[Mntsnow]

well do you have any other computers on your own network?

It looks like some machine is looking for a DHCP server.
Both of those ports are pretty much harmless.



67 tcp udp bootps DHCP BOOTP Protocol Server
68 tcp udp bootpc DHCP BOOTP Protocol Client

[sys-eng]

No, just the one PC. The attempts seem to be about 20 per hour. I thought maybe it was the DSLAM from the phone company but their tech support won't even try to investigate.

sys-eng

[Mntsnow]

Just block those ports as your not using them and ignore those "hits". Someone that is in your netblock has a misconfigured machine obviously

[sys-eng]

OK. They do tend to fill up the firewall traffic log though.

[Mntsnow]

Can't you configure the Sygate firewall to "drop" those requests thus they would not be logged?