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Re: bad frag bits


From: Brian <bmc () snort org>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:05:31 -0500

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:00:39PM +0100, Samuel C. Adams wrote:
alert ip $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"BAD-TRAFFIC bad frag
bits"; fragbits:MD; sid:1322; classtype:misc-activity; rev:5;) 

So... I believe this signature generates alerts when packets with both
the don't fragment and more fragments bits are set. Anyone see this
alert much? 

Yep.  And it shows up quite a bit on big NFS networks.  This rule will be
disabled by default the next time I do a rules commit.

-b


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