Re: a lot of spoofed traffic for port 8, does anybody recon this?

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () worldgatein net>]

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Bob Johnson spewed into the ether:
> port 8 on the client system (i.e. the system it is connecting to the 
This is ICMP! There is no concept of ports in ICMP. The 8 reefers to
the type of ICMP message.
Type 8 is ICMP_ECHO, type 0 is ICMP_ECHOREPLY.
Someone/something pinging the modem to see if its alive, maybe?

> In his case the modem has a public IP number, so the probe packets come 
> from that address.
192.168/16 is RFC 1918 space, not public IP space.

Devdas Bhagat