Personal stats on satx.rr.com ARP traffic

From: Richard Bejtlich (richardat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 20:29:26 PDT

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    Hi all,
    
    Code Red continues to amaze.  First I was surprised by the hundreds of 
    individual IPs scanning my single, no-web-server IP (about 700/day the 
    last three days).  Now I'm floored by the ARP traffic.  First I 
    collected 1000 ARP packets to see how fast they were arriving:
    
    21:58:37.540138 arp who-has 24.160.158.68 tell 24.160.158.1
    21:58:37.581758 arp who-has 24.167.113.97 tell 24.167.112.1
    21:58:37.618142 arp who-has 66.69.10.33 tell 66.69.10.1
    21:58:37.708154 arp who-has 24.162.168.66 tell 24.162.168.1
    ....continues...
    21:59:38.586001 arp who-has 24.162.169.18 tell 24.162.168.1
    21:59:38.806825 arp who-has 24.167.112.82 tell 24.167.112.1
    21:59:38.870976 arp who-has 24.162.168.83 tell 24.162.168.1
    
    That's roughly 1000 ARP requests in one minute 1 second, or 16.4 ARP 
    requests per second.
    
    Then I collected 10000 ARP packets to see how the longer timespan fared:
    
    22:00:42.877487 arp who-has 24.28.153.143 tell 24.28.153.1
    22:00:42.915864 arp who-has 24.162.170.86 tell 24.162.170.1
    22:00:43.086824 arp who-has 24.160.136.166 tell 24.160.136.1
    22:00:43.143667 arp who-has 24.167.112.235 tell 24.167.112.1
    ...continues...
    22:11:30.739916 arp who-has 24.28.153.98 tell 24.28.153.1
    22:11:30.868589 arp who-has 24.160.159.67 tell 24.160.158.1
    22:11:31.031757 arp who-has 24.167.113.210 tell 24.167.112.1
    
    That session showed 10000 ARP requests in 10 minutes 48 seconds, or 15.4 
    ARP requests per second.
    
    I've never seen anything like this.
    
    Richard
    http://taosecurity.com
    
    
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