Hi folks, here's a question for you. I was watching my "live log" and noticed a ton of traffic coming from an IP address on port 67 to destination IP 255.255.255.255 on port 68. These are DHCP ports, and it turns out that the source address is somehow related to my ISP's DHCP server. eth0.info from dhcpcd lists that particular IP as DHCPGIADDR. I have no idea what that value means but am guessing maybe it has to do with a gateway or something on the ISP side?
Anyway, my question is building up from this. There is probably one hit every second, which fills the live log. More importantly, it floods my syslog. Has anyone else seen this traffic behavior? From the nature of the destination and protocol, it's probably just the ISP's server broadcasting "hey I'm available to give you an address!" But, if it's that benign, I really don't want to be logging an event for it literally every second. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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