Re: Port 0 packets

From: Andreas Östling (andreasoat_private)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 11:18:38 PDT

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    On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Dave Paris wrote:
    
    > Our IDS spotted another TCP port 0 packet at 19:59pm UTC today
    > (Thursday).  Headers follow:
    >
    > [**] (snort_decoder): T/TCP Detected [**]
    > 07/24-19:59:51.308749 216.136.173.246:0 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0
    
    In case you don't know, snort has a bug (or had - I don't know if it has
    been fixed now) that would make those alerts generated by the snort
    decoder to always have the ports set to 0 since those values weren't yet
    assigned at that stage.
    See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=snort-devel&m=105698697005259&w=2
    
    /Andreas
    
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