Re: false positive on 1:469 ICMP PING NMAP

El jue, 14 de 10 de 2004 a las 15:59, Nigel Houghton escribió:

> In the false positive section for the rule it states:
> 
> "The only current identifying feature of nmap's ICMP ping is
> that the data size is 0.  It is entirely possible that other tools may
> send icmp pings with zero data."
> 
> It would seem that your Alteon AD4 is one of those tools. Having said that,
> if your AD4 and your router are both in your home net and your $HOME_NET
> and $EXTERNAL_NET variables are set correctly, this rule should not
> generate an event.
> 

Or if it's giving you real problems deactivate it, it does not
very useful anyway.

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