[Mageia-discuss] Odd entry in log file

[Frank Griffin]

On 05/07/2012 07:42 PM, imnotpc wrote:
>
> Well the Comcast cable modem was a dead end. I checked it and DHCP is 
> disabled, and even if it were enabled it uses a completely different 
> subnet. Besides, It would be coming in on eth2 and not eth0. I checked 
> the wireless router in the LAN and it uses the 192.168.3.0/24 subnet 
> for it's DHCP connections. It has a fixed IP of 192.168.0.100 on the 
> LAN interface so I don't know why these IPs would ever be seen by the 
> firewall/gateway box, but this looks like the most likely source.
Waitaminnit.  Yesterday you wrote:

>
> Wireless Router Attached to the LAN: The LAN facing NIC on the 
> wireless router has a fixed IP of 192.168.0.100. The wireless 
> interface is configured to assign IPs in the 192.168.2.0/24 range to 
> the wireless hosts using DHCP.

If the wireless router DHCP is setup to assign from 192.168.3.0/24, then 
that's where the 192.168.3.2 is coming from.  Unless your gateway is set 
to masquerade 192.168.3.0/24, you get exactly what you're seeing.