Re: Strange tcpdump file

From: vern@ee.lbl.gov
Date: 10/23/01


Message-Id: <200110230347.f9N3lJH05099@yak.aciri.org>
From: vern@ee.lbl.gov
To: Lindsay <lmf1t@cstone.net>
Subject: Re: Strange tcpdump file 
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:47:19 -0700


> http://www.cstone.net/~lmf1t/anom_logs/bogusIP.log
>
> Ethereal version 0.8.20 shows that the packet has IP header length of 0.

If you trace a busy link, it turns out you see busted stuff like this
every day. For example, the Bro intrusion detection system, which I run
operationally at lbl.gov, observes truncated packets, illegal TCP
acknowledgements and retransmissions, benign splitting of TCP headers
across different IP fragments, etc. See the discussion of "The Problem
of Crud" in the Bro paper:

        ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/bro-CN99.ps.gz

- Vern

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