Re: Huge outgoing ICMP flows

From: Trevor (trevorat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 10:37:54 PDT

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    On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Vangelis Haniotakis wrote:
    
    >  Hi.
    > 
    >  Over the last few days, our outgoing traffic has increased tremendously.
    > On examination of our Netflow logs, a couple of our hosts seem to be
    > transmitting big amounts of data with source and destination port 0 to a
    > small number of external hosts.
    > 
    >  Is this a DOS attack originating from our hosts? Is there a legitimate
    > reason for flows looking like this:
    > 
    > src IP|dst IP|src port|dst port|prot|pkt count|flow sz|strt timestmp|end ts
    > 147.52.xxx.xxx|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx|0|0|ICMP|6575|6637824|992379494|988086327
    > 147.52.xxx.xxx|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx|0|0|ICMP|5735|6088716|992379508|992381308
    > 
    >  The protocol field is actually Cisco Netflow Collector's guess of the
    > protocol, not an indication of actual packet format. I'm not sure whether
    > these are indeed huge ICMP packets or something else, like data transfers.
    > Some of these flows are tens of MBs in size.
    > 
    >  Any assistance or recommendations would be very much appreciated indeed.
    > 
    >  Thank you very much for your time in advance.
    > 
    > --
    > Vangelis Haniotakis - Network & Communications Centre, University of Crete
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > 
    



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