Re: HP Jetdirect Printers and portscans

[Joe McAlerney <joey () SiliconDefense com>]

Hello Paul,

You could add them to the portscan-ignorehosts list, or raise your
threshold a bit.  10 connections in 20 seconds seems a bit low.  It
seems web browsing to pages with 10 or more banner adds would set that
off as well.

-Joe M.

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Paul Asadoorian wrote:
> I am logging all my HP JetDirect printers (we have many, like 100's) in
> the portscan module:
>
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3649 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3650 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3651 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3652 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3653 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3654 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3655 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3656 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3657 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3658 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:17 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3659 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3660 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3661 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3662 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3663 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3665 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3666 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3667 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3668 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:18 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3670 UDP
> Jun 29 11:29:27 MY.NET.51.32:161 -> MY.NET.19.248:3720 UDP
>
> My portscan settings are as follows:
>
>    preprocessor portscan: $HOME_NET 10 20 portscan.log
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated...
>
> BTW:  MY.NET.51.32 is a Jet Direct Print Server and MY.NET.19.248 is a
> Novell Server
>
> --
> Paul Asadoorian, GCIA
>
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