heh, Makes sense pal. H C is right dude. first of all make a status report of all the Computer on your Network that what services are running on them and what's each and everyone's TCP/IP behavior. This will help you out on getting alert on false positives. Else you'll be messing up with ppl's legit traffic.
Regards, --------- Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk voice: 92-021-111-GEMNET "Great is the Art of beginning, but Greater is the Art of ending. " ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.1 GCS/CM/P/TW d- s: !a C++ B@ L$ S$ U+++ P+ L+++ E--- W+ N+ o+ K- w-- O- PS PE- Y- PGP+ t+ X R tv+ b++ DI+ D G e++ h! r+ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --- H C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am trying to compile a report on the level of >> potentially hostile probing that is being done to >our >> internet connection. > >No offense, my friend, but you're on a fool's errand. > > >How are you able to determine what "potentially >hostile probing" is? You say these are >"attempts"...does that mean that your personal >firewall is dropping the connections? > >Let me ask you this...what is the purpose of this >server? Is NetBIOS required for the functionality of >the server? If not, why not simply uninstall it? As >it is, you've given yourself a lot of rather useless >work by having the firewall record all of these >dropped datagrams. > >> Is this legitimate traffic? > >Who knows. Did you happen to capture any outbound >traffic? These datagrams could very well be >responses, but it's difficult to tell with just the >information you've provided. > >> What exactly is it, and what software is producing >it? > >Again, it's hard to tell exactly. But then, I'm not >exactly clear on why it even matters. > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more >http://games.yahoo.com/ _____________________________________________________________ --------------------------- [ATTITUDEX.COM] http://www.attitudex.com/ --------------------------- _____________________________________________________________ Run a small business? Then you need professional email like [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net?tag
