martian source

["Mrs. Geeta Thanu" <geeta www cdfd org in>]

Hi all,

I have configured a redhat box as a gateway for a line .
so it has 2 NIC cards on for external eth0 and one for internal
eth1.
Now suddenly i am getting the following error

martian source 169.254.255.255 from 169.254.139.204 on dev eth1
11 header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:50:8d:45:3a:3b:08:00

and eth1 interface is not functioning.

Pls any one help me to understand what exactly the error message.
Is it a hacker problem or hardware problem.

Thanks
Geetha