topic PIX log message in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-log-message/m-p/502859#M529976 <P>Dear Pros,</P><P>Please could you explain the reason for the following pix log message. Firewall inside accessing outside (Internet) with PAT. Inside network consist of servers and PCs. </P><P></P><P>"710005: UDP request discarded from 10.70.77.5/137 to inside:10.70.77.255/netbios</P><P>-ns"</P><P></P><P>How to stop this message from appearing.</P><P>Thanks</P><P>swamy</P> Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:34:06 GMT arumugasamy 2020-02-21T08:34:06Z PIX log message https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-log-message/m-p/502859#M529976 <P>Dear Pros,</P><P>Please could you explain the reason for the following pix log message. Firewall inside accessing outside (Internet) with PAT. Inside network consist of servers and PCs. </P><P></P><P>"710005: UDP request discarded from 10.70.77.5/137 to inside:10.70.77.255/netbios</P><P>-ns"</P><P></P><P>How to stop this message from appearing.</P><P>Thanks</P><P>swamy</P> Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:34:06 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-log-message/m-p/502859#M529976 arumugasamy 2020-02-21T08:34:06Z Re: PIX log message https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-log-message/m-p/502860#M529977 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>the log suggested that a broadcast for netbios-sn has been received by the pix. and by default, pix will drop any broadcast packet.</P><P></P><P>i guess it cannot be avoided, as this broadcast is generated by all windows-based host. it is used to map the computer name to the ip address, e.g. you can use a computer name to share a file etc.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:35:12 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-log-message/m-p/502860#M529977 jackko 2005-12-04T22:35:12Z