dmesg is being flooded with iptables messages even though iptables services is not enabled

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Issue

  • dmesg is being flooded with iptables messages even though iptables services is not enabled 
iptablesIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 SRC=10.1.1.5 DST=10.1.1.6 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=25191 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58 
iptablesIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 SRC=10.1.1.5 DST=10.1.1.6 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=25192 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58 
iptablesIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 SRC=10.1.1.5 DST=10.1.1.6 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=25193 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58 
iptablesIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 SRC=10.1.1.5 DST=10.1.1.6 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=25196 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58 
iptablesIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 SRC=10.1.1.5 DST=10.1.1.6 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=25197 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all versions.

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