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Re: udp 500 packets when users are web browsing


From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists () lists zabbadoz net>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:42:21 +0000


On 03 Sep 2015, at 13:35 , Robert Webb <rwebb () ropeguru com> wrote:

We are seeing udp 500 packets being dropped at our firewall from user's browsing sessions. These are users on a 2008 
R2 AD setup with Windows 7.

Source and destination ports are udp 500 and the the pattern of drops directly correlate to the web browsing 
activity. We have confirmed this with tcpdump of port 500 and a single host and watching the pattern of traffic as 
they browse. This also occurs no matter what browser is used.

Can anyone shine some light on what may be using udp 500 when web browsing?

The VPN using IPsec UDP-Encap connection that supposedly gets through NAT?   Have you checked the content with tcpdump? 
  Do you have fragments by any chance?



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