dhcpcd-discuss

Hi

On 28/09/2018 09:36, zless wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just recently my dhcpcd 6.11.5 started logging lots of messages like this:
>
> eno1: truncated packet (0) from 101.249.179.246
> eno1: truncated packet (0) from 180.95.225.130
> eno1: truncated packet (0) from 219.142.242.201
> eno1: truncated packet (0) from 171.12.10.197
>
> I don't really understand why this is happening. Is the daemon trying to reach
> those external IPs? Or are these incoming connections from outside that are
> not properly filtered by the ISP?

It means you received a BOOTP packet from these machines which is 
invalid - basically it's too short to be a proper BOOTP message.
I would guess someone is trying to hack your DHCP client and dhcpcd is 
being noisy about it.

Roy