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Re: pings
From: cc <cc () belfordhk com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:33:32 +0800
Leif Ericksen sighed and wrote::
Overall I would not worry to much about ping packets noticed in your firewall logs. Yeah notice them and unless you are seeing hundreds to thousands of packets not a big deal. I am on a DHCP connection with my ISP and I see various hits in my IDS from PING. ping hits aer way to common for most people to worry about.
Here's a bit of stats that might put things into a bit of a perspective. Since 18th Feb. 2004, up until now, I've had 188000+ alerts. As it stands, 69% of these are ICMP packets. In the past, when I first installed snort on the firewall, most were TCP connects. Now the majority is ICMPs. So I'm a little bit perturbed by this...