From: Joel Esler (joel.eslersourcefire.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2008 - 17:02:04 CST

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CunningPike had it right. When your machines can't find an IP (via
DHCP, or whatever), they default to the 169.254.x.x range.

Since your machines were contacting ports 139:445, I am willing to bet
that it's a Windows machine plugged into the network somewhere, (on
the same broadcast domain as your Snort sensor), and can't DHCP itself
for whatever reason.

My suggest is that you use Snort in sniffer mode like

#snort -vde 'net 169.254.x.x' look at the mac addresses. See if that
helps you out any.

Assigning these IPs should be the default behavior of both Windows and
OSX.

Joel

On Feb 25, 2008, at 5:47 PM, dhottingerharrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:

> Quoting Aaron Giuoco <agiuocoyahoo.com>:
>
>> True. But it is unusual to see so much traffic from 169.254 leaving
>> a computer that already has a network connection.
>>
>> I haven't been able to confirm whether the packets are related to
>> ActiveSync like Paul mentioned. Thanks for the replies. I'll try
>> to confirm whether or not ActiveSync is being used on these PCs or
>> not and post back.
>>
>> AG
>>
> I missed part of this post. However, I see lots of 169 traffic from
> my apple 10.4, 10.5 computers. I think they use it for bonjour or
> entourage, which is a way to find printers, and other network
> resources.
>
>
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