I may be mistaken, but I know for a fact that lots of programs make their
presence on a network known by advertising their port-number with packets
directed at 255.255.255.255
Norton Antivirus Corporate comes to mind in example. This behavior is not
called broadcasting??
Regards
Ralf G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Crist Clark" <crist.clark AT GLOBALSTAR DOT COM>
To: <FW-1-MAILINGLIST AT AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT DOT COM>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [FW-1] A little off Topic - Unknown Port
> Mitchell Rowton wrote:
> >
> > It seemed like the original post was pointing out what you are saying
> > now. "This is strange traffic, anybody know about it?" I think the
> > odds are its not malicious traffic (as you said) but its still broken.
> > There are some malicious programs that use port 60001 and some OS's
> > that accepts TCP Broadcast (BSD.)
>
> That it ever did was a bug. I fixed it in FreeBSD, and it's been fixed in
> the other most popular BSD variants,
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/262733
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4309
>
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