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Subject: Re: Strange Trace_Route
From: George Milliken (gmillikenfarm9.com)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2000 - 11:00:54 CDT


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Pete,

Some of our busier web sites generate false positives on traceroute on
port 25 and 80. They are seemingly outbound traceroutes.

We use BIG IP from f5 Networks and we think it is part of the false
positive generation.

Regards,

George Milliken

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Pete Middleton wrote:
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> All,
>
> I received this alert caused by our SMTP server. It appears to be a mail,
> but I don't understand why it has been picked up as a trace route. Can
> anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> 'Trace_Route' event detected by the RealSecure engine at 'our server'.
> Details:
> Source Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> Source Port: E-mail (25)
> Source MAC Address: mm:mm:mm:mm:mm:mm
> Destination Address: yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
> Destination Port: 48078
> Destination MAC Address: mm:mm:mm:mm:mm:mm
> Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:46:24
> Protocol: TCP (6)
> Priority: medium
> Actions mask: 0x204
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
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Regards,

George Milliken

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