Re: Strange traffic

From: Todd Ransom (transomat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 06:49:40 PDT

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    > Over the past 2 weeks we've started to recieved some pretty
    > strange traffic which has been stopped at our border. The
    > $TARGET host in each case is the same.
    >
    > Q. Has anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts??
    
    > Aug 22 16:42:04 8/0/icmp $TARGET <- 204.71.128.148 98
    > Aug 22 16:42:06 8/0/icmp $TARGET <- 204.71.128.148 98
    > Aug 22 16:42:15 tcp $TARGET;22 <- 204.71.128.148;1024 54 syn
    > Aug 22 16:42:20 tcp $TARGET;22 <- 204.71.128.148;1024 54 syn
    > Aug 22 16:42:25 tcp $TARGET;53 <- 204.71.128.148;1024 54 syn
    > Aug 22 16:42:30 tcp $TARGET;123 <- 204.71.128.148;1024 54 syn
    > Aug 22 16:42:35 tcp $TARGET;113 <- 204.71.128.148;1024 54 syn
    
    What is $target?  A firewall or web proxy?  This looks suspiciously like the
    RTT measuring traffic I was getting from an http load balancing device (F5
    BigIP in my case).
    
    hth,
    TR
    
    
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