Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: > There's an wrong routing entry: > > 134.102.0.0/16 0.0.0.0 UG000eth1 It is not wrong, it is just dangerous. You *have* a 134.102.0.0/16 network there, don't you? Or is the netmask wrong? You can fix the issue right by increasing y

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 16.10.2004, 16:21, Ben Goedeke wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: ... > Hmm. That gives me an idea: > > Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > 134.102.0.0/16 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth1 > > With such a routing entry the firewall will try and resolve mac > addr

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
Christian Storch wrote: On Sa, 16.10.2004, 13:39, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: ... ethernet address, namely the one of the upstream router.) So it seems arp resolution occurs even though the packets are being dropped. That's why I thought the bridge before the firewall could be a good idea. But I guess

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Christian Storch wrote: > Yes! That resolution is independend from chain FORWARD. But you can probably kill packets before it in PREROUTING. I didn't try, though. But it would be a nice experiment to do sometime. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One d

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: > My net has netmask /24 and the firewall is connected to an upstream > router which sits in 134.102.0.0/16. The other gateway sits between my This is the problem. And what a dangerous netmask to have a router sit on, btw... here we use small networks (

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 16.10.2004, 13:39, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: ... > ethernet address, namely the one of the upstream router.) So it seems > arp resolution occurs even though the packets are being dropped. That's > why I thought the bridge before the firewall could be a good idea. But > I guess the net gets clo

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Christian Storch wrote: > Do you have a route entry like > > 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 Eek! no way, we are very careful with our routing :P And the other person doesn't have one, either. He has a /16 network, that is enough to fill

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Ben Goedeke
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:39:29PM +0200, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: My net has netmask /24 and the firewall is connected to an upstream router which sits in 134.102.0.0/16. The other gateway sits between my site and two /24 nets but this gateway doesn't seem to be affected. So th

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:39:29PM +0200, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > >Well, I have seen ARP overflows on very big flat networks (e.g. > >172.16.0.0/16) for example. Is any of yours that big? Otherwise, why > >would > >the firewall be trying to resolve so ma

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Well, I have seen ARP overflows on very big flat networks (e.g. 172.16.0.0/16) for example. Is any of yours that big? Otherwise, why would the firewall be trying to resolve so many ARP addresses, instead of forwarding the packets to its default gateway, or rejec

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 16.10.2004, 07:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Ben Goedeke wrote: >> Should it really be possible for a single infected windows machine to >> dos >> a linux firewall? Please tell me it's not true and there's just >> something >> I'm overlooking. I'm at my wits e