"man" protocol?

Tim Lavoie tim at fractaldragon.net
Mon Jan 2 18:27:48 EST 2006


Hi all,

I've just started looking at Argus in earnest, so I'm new, but
generally familiar with other networking tools.

Most of the traffic that I've looked at so far seems pretty normal, at
least in that I understand what it is, and the reporting of it from
tools like "ra". Some of it appears to highlight some gaps in what I know.

The ones which are strangest are those like the following. I'm fine
with tcp, udp, arp etc., but haven't found what the "man" protocol
means. Naturally, googling gives me countless links to man pages. In
any case, the format of these is slightly different from the rest, and
all apparently from a single IP (6000+ records, from December 12 to
present).

12-12-05 15:26:52.669222           man               229.97.122.203  v2.0                                     1 0          0        0         0            0           STA
12-12-05 15:26:52.670329           man               229.97.122.203  v2.0                                    16 7          233      0         49530        4           CON
12-12-05 15:31:52.183189           man               229.97.122.203  v2.0                                    36 6          65       0         4419         5           CON
12-12-05 15:36:52.035605           man               229.97.122.203  v2.0                                    53 5          60       0         3772         1           CON

Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Tim



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