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Re: Help with identifying a kind of attack.

  • From: Andy McConnell
  • Date: Tue Dec 08 18:45:35 1998

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Thom Youngblood wrote:

>I've been tracking an attack all day long, and have been frustrated
>trying to figure out both what was being attacked, and how.  Finally,
>I realized it was *not* ICMP, UDP, or TCP.
>
>#sh access-lists 151
>Extended IP access list 151
>    permit icmp any 20.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 (1023 matches)
>    permit udp any 20.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 (4347 matches)
>    permit tcp any 20.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 (86444 matches)
>    deny   ip any 20.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 (5547308 matches)
>    permit ip any any (4450563 matches)
>
>
>In the above, notice the disparity?  So, my question is...
>
>What the hell kind of packet is it if it's not ICMP, UDP, or TCP?

#access-list 123 permit ?
  <0-255>  An IP protocol number
  eigrp    Cisco's EIGRP routing protocol
  gre      Cisco's GRE tunneling
  icmp     Internet Control Message Protocol
  igmp     Internet Gateway Message Protocol
  igrp     Cisco's IGRP routing protocol
  ip       Any Internet Protocol
  ipinip   IP in IP tunneling
  nos      KA9Q NOS compatible IP over IP tunneling
  ospf     OSPF routing protocol
  tcp      Transmission Control Protocol
  udp      User Datagram Protocol

there's lots of protocols other than these... For example, IPv6 is
protocol number 41.

Also, try 
	permit ip any any log	
! This will definitely tell you what you're seeing.

-Andy


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