Questions tagged [packet]
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How to find the linux user that sent the packet [duplicate]
Our server is compromised and we would like to know which accounts sent the malicious queries from our server. I used tcpdump to get this :
our.host.net.48194 > box5596.bluehost.com.http: Flags [P....
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How to identify source, destination ip using STUN and DTLS protocols?
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Given image i'm not able to identify which is source and destination ip address ( client or server). From STUN protocol 1st packet it's user request so i thought 131.202....
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What is signature in a packet payload?
What is a signature in a packet payload?
Why are they even necessary ?
Also traffic classifiers use signature to detect the type of protocol of packet like there are regular expressions for http ...
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How to limit packets per unit time on a particular interface (for vms)
I am using kvm and virtuozzo virtualization on my servers and each having 10 vms.
I have to restrict DDOS attack from my VMS (i.e prevent VM from doing DDOS attack), I search on net and found that I ...
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How to use iptables to link two vlans
I have two networks, one being the main, with a network card eth1 (found on an Ubuntu Server 18.04 configured to be a router) and internal IP address 192.168.5.1 (with is the gateway) and another ...
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Forwarded Packets are received by namespace's veth0 but not received by application
I use libtins (It uses Pcap) to capture link layer packets and forward to a network namespace where the actual application runs on.
Client(Browser) -> Server -> Pcap -> Pcap Send -> br0 (...
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What's the expected behavior in TCP when hosts don't specify the MSS during handshake?
Let's suppose there are two hosts A and B and they are going to communicate over TCP. I am curious about the behavior of TCP related to MSS. Wikipedia says default value of MSS is 536. But, RFC-793 ...
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Is it possible to capture packets of router which i connected through wifi of my laptop
I want to capture all traffic of router I can only connect with wifi no physical access and I do have access to configuration page of router
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Does tcpdump guarantee packet integrity?
In normal use of tcpdump without any parameter, does it guarantee?
tcpdump -i eth0 -w file.pcap
In using tcpdump rotating by time with -G parameter, does it guarantee?
tcpdump -i eth0 -w file.pcap -...
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Is there is any tool/way to find out why packet is getting dropped due to an arp cache full?
My developer hypothesis is packet is getting dropped at arp layer. We increased the default value of neigh.default.gc_thresh3 1024 --> 2048 and now everything looks good. But I want to understand is ...
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Performing tasks and custom logic on network packets
I'm looking for a way to process packets in a Linux server in a particular fashion - I need to run some custom logic on every packet, then (possibly) take some actions on the packets and let the ...
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HTML code trying to load PDF file from Site using ssl with self signed certificate
My employer has a web application that loads a pdf file onto the client browser by having a code that does the ff:
embed src="https://somepage.somesite.com/folderpath/somefile.pdf" width="100%" ...
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Can a router be connected to a both a subnet and a subnet inside that subnet?
Can a router be connected to both a subnet 1 and a subnet 1.1 which is a subnet inside of subnet 1?
For example, can a router be connected and sent packets to subnet 223.1.17.128/25 and 223.1.17.192/...
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IPTables or alternate solution to block the first attempt to connect then allow further attempts from same IP
I have a unique situation in which a DDOS attack for a certain game is sending realistic player connection packets that seem to perfectly mimic a real player's connection packet.
These typically ...
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In iptables, if a packet is ACCEPTed in one table, does it bypass the next table?
If a packet is ACCEPTed from, say, the INPUT chain of the mangle table, will it bypass the INPUT chain of the filter table and go straight to the local process? Or will the INPUT chain of the filter ...
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FreeBSD: redirect some UDP traffic from one port to another
I have some specialized DNS servers running on FreeBSD 11. A few people keep hammering on them and I would like to give them different answers. So I'd like to divert UDP traffic from those hosts from ...
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Force jumbo packet fragmentation
We are in a cluster environment. We have compute nodes with jumbo packets enabled and a MTU of 9000. We are running into some issues in tracebacks to an address outside of our lan, where jumbo packets ...
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How packet is transmitted over the network? [closed]
I am writing discrete event-driven simulator to measure time between sending datasets over network.
If multiple processes sends n packets through network they (packets) will go one after one through ...
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Openvpn fails behind firewall but another VPN Works
Well I have spent last 48 hours trying to debug this but I'm about to give up now.
Mobile carrier in our country has a daily social bundle in which we can use ONLY whatsapp, facebook and snapchat &...
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How to send outgoing TCP packets on Windows through a remote Linux server?
Let's say I have a Windows computer and a Linux server. I'm looking for a way to route outgoing TCP packets on the Windows computer (all ports) through the Linux server.
The Linux server would have ...
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Understanding SoftEther VPN packet log
Help me to identify each part of a packet log from softether VPN.
for example, the below given is a packet log.
2017-06-07,23:40:20.888,SID-USER-[L2TP]-15,SID-SECURENAT-1,CA9DC6D826F0,00AC3A3F04D0,...
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How to mark packets depending on hostname?
We can mark packets on the basis of IP addresses in the following way -
iptables -A FORWARD -t mangle -s 123.2.3.4 -j MARK --set-mark 1
How to mark packets depending on the hostname? I tried this - ...
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High Traffic from Content Delivery Networks
I am having trouble on our school network recently. When browsing the internet users will often get an error from the browser saying "No Internet DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" but when they refresh the ...
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Transportation Layer vs Network Layer [closed]
I am a networking student, and I am learning about the OSI system for networks. The concepts for this system are all pretty complicated, but the main issue that I'm having is the main differences ...
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Route HTTP packets into tun/tap interface
What I simply want is to redirect all HTTP packet from any interface to my tun/tap interface. A scapy script will listen on this interface and do some treatments to these packets.
First, I created a ...
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Accept ICMP packets (ping) with specific length - Iptable rules
I am going to filter Ping request to my server, and only accepts ping request with length 920.
ping -l 920 serrveraddress
I am using the following two command in iptables
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -...
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Linux firewall packet handling
When a client communicates with a the server via HTTP, for example, there are many packets going in both directions. It means from the client to the server and vice versa.
I would like to ask how ...
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Drop packet containing the selected string
How can I drop all packets on windows server that are containing a specific string?
The string is: TSource
Windows Firewall doesn't seem to have this kind of option.
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Force Windows to send packets as soon as they arrive the nic
I have a network application running on Windows Server 2008 R2, that must send small packets in a very short time interval, each microsecond matters. My problem is that windows accumulates the packets ...
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Outbound Packets Dropping / Timeouts - Only with Azure
I have an issue with packets dropping to a third party data center in Florida, USA. The issue only occurs on Azure Virtual Machines, no matter which data center the VM is in. I've done the same tests ...
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Extremely flaky connection to our EC2 instance through one connection, but not others
We have a robotic coffee barista deployed at the Dell campus in North Austin, with internet service through Time Warner Cable.
We have been fighting intermittent connection losses between 10PM - 1AM ...
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Getting chunks of high ms when pinging local / external IP addresses?
I am having difficulty identifying what a specific problem with one of your vlaned networks.
They have a voip phone which regularly cuts out during long phone calls.
I have done several ping tests ...
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iptables rules for blocking specific packets [closed]
Im using the following iptables rule:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags PSH,ACK PSH,ACK -m length --length 52 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j DROP
It does it's job for blocking the ...
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iptables connlimit: exclude multiple IP addresses
I have currently this IPTABLES command:
iptables -A INPUT -s ! 192.168.0.2 -p tcp --syn -m connlimit [...] -j DROP
As far as I know, such rule limit some number of connections following various ...
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Split TCP packet - Data layer vs IPv4Layer
What is the different between split TCP packet in the Data layer compare to split the packet in IPv4Layer ?
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How to redirect a packet with iptables that match a certain pattern? (eg a QUERY command with UDP)
I have a certain packet that I want at all times to be redirected to a specific ip on my virtual network interface. As for now my iptables is setup like this:
(the commands, I use \ as for now to ...
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How many times does switch calculates FCS?
Does a switch calculate the Frame check sequence (FCS) before sending packets? Because packet shouldn't change, so FCS should also stay the same.
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How many data packets does it take to log in to facebook? [closed]
I want to find out how many packets are sent when visiting a site on the web. What's a good program that would help me get this kind of data?
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See historical packet receipt statistics in Windows
I know this is a long shot, but it would be really useful to me right now.
Does anyone know of a Windows function or 3rd party tool that can show stats about the receipt of packets on a network ...
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Is there anyway to tell what user will receive data from inbound packet?
In linux, considering this use case:
1. User initiates http request for webpage to remote server
2. Remote server answers request and sends packets
Is there any reference to the user who started ...
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Set udp packet size limit
I have a CentOS server with a JAVA application that receive UDP data packets, it works all OK until the packet is bigger than 584 bytes, I read something about and seems to be a limit of UDP protocol.
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tcpdump show strange packet with incorrect src ip and dst ip
I have private LAN with > 100 servers, in which, I have 3 server:
x.x.x.37: run memcache on port 11211 (called s37 for short)
x.x.x.241: run an application server, which connect to memcache on
x.x.x....
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PF: Block all, but one subnet firewall rule?
I'm trying to do something that I thought would be relatively simple: Block all the traffic to a test server, other than my company's subnet.
I've tried things along these lines (111.111.0.0 is my ...
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TCP Sequence & Acknowledgment numbers
I have looked through other questions on here involving the relevant topics, but I am still not clear on this.
I have just been reading this explanation of TCP sequence & acknowledgment numbers.
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Is TCP header the same as TCP segment?
So, is a TCP header actually the same thing as a TCP segment? I was reading this page,
where it reads near the end that:
Even though it might seem they are, in most cases, when referring to
the ...
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Viewing the packet-size of an incoming IP
I have been looking for a sulution to this for a few hours. after no avail im asking for help here.
I need to watch my incoming packets by Size. in a format similar to:
IP SIZE
I have tried TCPDUMP ...
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How many packets will it take to send particular data?
If I know the maximum packet size is 1500 bytes say for Ethernet frame v2 then for example I want to transfer 1 KB over the Internet which is roughly 1024 bytes.
Will the packet be split into many ...
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Understanding ARP traces during OS load
Consider the following ARP packets captured while a unix machine was booting.
From the packets I understand that this machine whose MAC address is 00:22:22:22:22:22 is requesting information about ...
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Server sending packets every 5 minutes to 3 IPs
Been noticing in our firewall logs that three connections are being constantly established every 5 minutes from our web server and trying to send a packet to destination port 43 (whois port) cycling ...
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UDP maximum segment size
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I am writing a UDP client-server application. the path MTU between client and server is 1500 bytes (with only a wireless link between them, so this value is pretty much stable). My system ...
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