Re: client's TCP port 256 hammered by several hosts

[Harlan Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com>]

Gerry,

Maybe I don't understand your situation as presented,
but wouldn't it make prudent sense to simply visit the
other systems and determine what processes are sending
out the packets in question?


--- gerry <gerry () tituspcservice com> wrote:
> suddenly, one of our lan client (win2k novell
> client) machine's tpc port 256 is being flooded with
> packets from other lan pcs and our netware (5.1)
> server.
> anyone have an idea what would cause this or, better
> yet, how to eliminate all the excess traffic.
>
> 11/04-08:31:14.843754 192.168.x.x:2056 ->
> 192.168.x.x:256
> TCP TTL:128 TOS:0x0 ID:10634 IpLen:20 DgmLen:48 DF
> ******S* Seq: 0x1E6E9152  Ack: 0x0  Win: 0x2000 
> TcpLen: 28
> TCP Options (4) => MSS: 1460 NOP NOP SackOK 
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> 11/04-08:31:14.843779 192.168.x.x:256 ->
> 192.168.x.x:2056
> TCP TTL:128 TOS:0x0 ID:62405 IpLen:20 DgmLen:40
> ***A*R** Seq: 0x0  Ack: 0x1E6E9153  Win: 0x0 
> TcpLen: 20
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> 11/04-08:31:15.344013 192.168.x.x:2056 ->
> 192.168.x.x:256
> TCP TTL:128 TOS:0x0 ID:11146 IpLen:20 DgmLen:48 DF
> ******S* Seq: 0x1E6E9152  Ack: 0x0  Win: 0x2000 
> TcpLen: 28
> TCP Options (4) => MSS: 1460 NOP NOP SackOK 
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> thanks in advance,
> g
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