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Chapter 10 Firewalls

Figure 92 Smurf Attack

10.4.2.1 ICMP Vulnerability

ICMP is an error-reporting protocol that works in concert with IP. The following ICMP types
trigger an alert:

10.4.2.2 Illegal Commands (NetBIOS and SMTP)

The only legal NetBIOS commands are the following - all others are illegal.

Table 64 ICMP Commands That Trigger Alerts

5

REDIRECT

13

TIMESTAMP_REQUEST

14

TIMESTAMP_REPLY

17

ADDRESS_MASK_REQUEST

18

ADDRESS_MASK_REPLY

Table 65 Legal NetBIOS Commands

MESSAGE:

REQUEST:

POSITIVE:

NEGATIVE:

RETARGET:

KEEPALIVE:

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