Hi list,

Here's the trick:

I have configured my gnatboxes to create alarms for spoofed packets.
Fine.
But now I'm trying to get rid of this kind of messages:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTIFICATION TYPE: GNAT Box FILTER ALARM
          PRODUCT: GNAT Box GB-Flash
          VERSION: 3.2.5s
             NAME: [...]
    CONFIGURATION: EXTERNAL=x.x.x.x
                   PROTECTED=y.y.y.y
                   PSN=z.z.z.z
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
      ALARM NO: 1
          DATE: Thu 2002-11-14 12:07:42 CET
     INTERFACE: PROTECTED (tx1)
INTERFACE TYPE: Protected
    ALARM TYPE: Possible spoof
     IP PACKET: UDP  [169.254.130.21/137]-->[169.254.255.255/137]  l=50
                    [169.254.130.21/netbios-ns]-->[169.254.255.255/netbios-ns]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:

	Return interface for IP packet is different than arrival.

These are standard netbios broadcast packets sent by MS stack for laptop or workstations in DHCP that were booted *just before* pluging the LAN cable.
As no dhcp server can be contacted at boot time, they build their own address in the 169.254.0.0/16 network (I think using the MAC address to calculate unique IP in the network)

So nothing very scary so far... :)

I tried to add a rule in the outbound filter to deny /nolog /noalarm this kind of packets, but it seems that the gnatbox will check the anti-spoofing rules before the outbound ones.

Anyone experienced this problem ?

Thanks a lot for your help,

--
Emmanuel.

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