Argus-info Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6

CS Lee geek00l at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 20:59:48 EST 2011


hi Cel,

Have you tried racluster?



On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:00 AM, <argus-info-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:

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>   1.  Argus 3.0.2 unable to remember the direction of a connection
>      (Cees)
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> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:43:27 +0100
> From: Cees <celzinga at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ARGUS] Argus 3.0.2 unable to remember the direction of a
>        connection
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> Hello list,
>
> I encountered a strange bug in Argus where Argus is unable to remember the
> direction of a connection.
> At first the direction is correct, but half-way through the session Argus
> 'forgets' the direction.
>
> I managed to create a test case, see the attachments.
>
> correct.pcap contains a TCP session of 52 packets between 172.16.12.165
> port
> 1051  and 192.168.234.166 port 8080
> test-case.pcap contains the same session, but with two additional packets
> on
> port 1058. In the original PCAP the packets were part of a complete
> session,
> but these two packets are enough to confuse Argus.
>
> Packet 21:
> 15:55:10.283193 IP 192.168.234.166.8080 > 172.16.12.165.1058: Flags [P.],
> seq 1142777472:1142777806, ack 3607727599, win 65535, length 334
> Packet 22:
> 15:55:40.595459 IP 172.16.12.165.1058 > 192.168.234.166.8080: Flags [.],
> ack
> 17423, win 63163, length 0
>
> With Argus 3.0.2:
>
> ./argus/argus-3.0.2/bin/argus -r correct.pcap -w - |
> ./argus/argus-clients-3.0.2/bin/ra -nnr -
> 27 Jan 11 15:55:05  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080         20       1080   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:56:03  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:56:34  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:57:05  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:57:37  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:58:08  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:58:39  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:59:10  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:59:41  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
>
> ./argus/argus-3.0.2/bin/argus -r test-case.pcap -w - |
> ./argus/argus-clients-3.0.2/bin/ra -nnr -
> 27 Jan 11 15:55:05  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051      ->
> 192.168.234.166.8080         20       1080   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:55:10  e           6    192.168.234.166.8080      ?>
> 172.16.12.165.1058          1         54   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:55:40  e           6    192.168.234.166.8080     <?
> 172.16.12.165.1058          1         54   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:56:03  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:56:34  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:57:05  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:57:37  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:58:08  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:58:39  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:59:10  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
> 27 Jan 11 15:59:41  e           6      172.16.12.165.1051     <?>
> 192.168.234.166.8080          4        216   CON
>
> As you can see the connection direction is lost.
>
> Attached are the PCAPs. (I'm not a liberty to provide the complete data, so
> they are stripped at 54 bytes p/packet and the MAC addresses are
> obfuscated,
> but they will still trigger the bug.)
>
> Any ideas what's going on here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Cees
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CS Lee<geek00L[at]gmail.com>

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