Bad loopback traffic not stopped by ipfw.

[Iasen Kostov]

Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:47:03PM +0300, Andrew Riabtsev wrote:
>A> To me it would be also interesting to know where this traffic comes
>A> from. I have same on my local net:
>A> 
>A> # tcpdump -neifxp0 src or dst 127.0.0.1
>A> tcpdump: listening on fxp0
>A> 16:26:23.280737 0:50:fc:ed:d4:4 0:02:55:b0:90:e4 0800 60: 127.0.0.1.80 > 192.168.141.148.1928: R 0:0(0) ack 1986723841 win 0
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>>16:26:23.287642 0:1:2:9>c:cf:e2 0:02:55:b0:90:e4 0800 60: 127.0.0.1.80 > 192.168.118.205.1046: R 0:0(0) ack 1959723009 win 0
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>This is some kind of Win32 virus. This floods can be easily
>stopped by ipfw rule:
>
>deny tcp from any to any tcpflags rst,ack
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    These packets never reach IPFW as we can see.