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Hi all,
I think there's a machine on my network that's sending out an unnecessary ping on a repeating basis. Not that it's crucial to stop, but I did notice that I couldn't find any way to log the pings coming into to my 10.3 machine. Am I missing something? Is there a ping log package that I missed?

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There is no ping log. The ping command is used to check for network connectivity. They are not comming into you system. All the ping is doing is verifing that your network card is hot. Your IP address is active on the network.
 
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Re: no log

I know that ping is used to test whether or not an IP is hot or not, I'm not concerned about a break-in of any type.

I used to tool around on a BSD-based machine and there actually was a ping log in /tmp. I was just wondering if anyone had seen or created a package to do that in Darwin.

Sorry about the ambiguous post.

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Well here is an article on the idea, but I really don't think anyone really needs this. Anything bad would come from an IP that is long gone after the fact
 

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