Re: [commercial] Re: Snort alarm sameip

[Philip Edwards <phil.e () clara net>]

In the payload section the server IP =, your IP, Client IP and relay IP are all the same so that's the answer.
Thanks very much.

Phil.



On 26 May 2012, at 17:14, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote:

> Strange what do you see in the payload section ?
>
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Philip Edwards <phil.e () clara net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone hazard a guess why the sameip keyword is triggering an alarm on a DHCP request.
> The source is 0.0.0.0 the destination is 255.255.255.255
> The rule is the default: bad-traffic rule
>
> alert ip any any -> any any (msg:"BAD-TRAFFIC same SRC/DST"; sameip; reference:bugtraq,2666; reference:cve,1999-0016; 
> reference:url,www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-28.html; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:527; rev:8;)
>
> phil@Rangoon:~$ snort --version
>
>   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
>  o"  )~   Version 2.9.2 IPv6 GRE (Build 78)
>   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team
>           Copyright (C) 1998-2011 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
>           Using libpcap version 1.1.1
>           Using PCRE version: 8.12 2011-01-15
>           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3.4
>
>
>
> I could add exceptions to filter this out but would i like to know why it's being triggered.
>
> Thanks
>
> Phil Edwards
>
>
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