ICMP records of an unusual size

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Wed Apr 2 07:27:06 EDT 2014


Ahhh I see, version 3.0.7.3 has the problem, not 5.
So let me fix 5, so that 3.0.7.6 will be good.
Carter

On Apr 2, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:

> Hey Jesse,
> This should work in argus-3.0.7.5, as I compile all the time without
> any problems on all the platforms..., these references are not in 3.0.7.3.
> 
> So do you have a definition for ArgusIpNetPacket in ArgusSource.c ???
> 
> Carter
> 
> On Apr 1, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I got the following when trying to compile argus-3.0.7.3:
>> 
>> gcc -O3 -I. -I/usr/local/include -I./../include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c ArgusSource.c
>> In file included from ./ArgusModeler.h:330,
>>                  from ./argus.h:40,
>>                  from ArgusSource.c:67:
>> ./ArgusSource.h:893: error: ‘ArgusIpNetPacket’ undeclared here (not in a function)
>> make: *** [ArgusSource.o] Error 1
>> 
>> Following this I found:
>> 
>> #ifdef DLT_IPNET
>>    { ArgusIpNetPacket,   DLT_IPNET,  "ArgusIpNetPacket()" },
>> #endif
>> 
>> Since this seem to be geared towards Mavericks and not my platform I took a chance and commented this out:
>> 
>> /*
>> #ifdef DLT_IPNET
>>    { ArgusIpNetPacket,   DLT_IPNET,  "ArgusIpNetPacket()" },
>> #endif
>> */
>> 
>> Which seems to have resolved my issue...Is this expected? Michael, did you encounter this error?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jesse
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>> Hey Michael,
>> Thanks !!!  That sure does make it a lot easier !!!
>> If you don't mind sending a thumbs up or down, say tomorrow, that would be huge.  If up, I'll move the latest link to argus-3.0.7.3, probably can do that now....  and then warn the Mavericks users that a fix is on the way.
>> 
>> Carter
>> 
>> > On Mar 31, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Michael Sanderson <sanders at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've been running argus 3.0.7.3 on my capture system for about 3 hours without seeing any of the bogus pkts/bytes counts, which were appearing within an hour previously.
>> >
>> >      Michael Sanderson
>> >
>> >> On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Michael Sanderson <sanders at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In my case, clients up to and including 3.0.7.18 can get through.  3.0.7.19 and onward have problems reading the bad data. I'll get back to you about argus 3.0.7.3.  I was running 3.0.5.10 prior to this.
>> >>
>> >>     Michael Sanderson
>> >>
>> >>> On Mar 31, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> OK, so with new argus-3.0.7.5 and most argus-clients, we've got bogus values poping up for pkts/bytes.  argus-clients-3.0.7.23 has problems reading the bad data, but previous clients can at least get through.
>> >>>
>> >>> Downgrading to 3.0.7.3 fixes the problem for those that have seen it ???
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm traveling this week, but will be working this to fix.  I need to try to reproduce the problem, so if anyone has a packet capture that generates, that would help !!!
>> >>>
>> >>> Sorry for the inconvenience !!!
>> >>>
>> >>> Carter
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Mar 31, 2014, at 2:59 AM, Michael Sanderson <sanders at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Looking at my data more closely, I'm seeing these unexpectedly large pkts/bytes on TCP connections as well, not just ICMP. Haven't seen them from UDP, but ....
>> >>>>
>> >>>>   Michael Sanderson
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On Mar 30, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Michael Sanderson <sanders at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Jesse/Carter, I also see something similar after an update to argus 3.0.7.5 last week.  It is being collected via a radium from clients 3.0.7.6.  ra from 3.0.7.6 and from 3.0.7.18 reads the file, displaying the apparently bogus pkts/bytes.  The ra from 3.0.7.19 through 3.0.7.23 displays everything up to the record with the bogus pkts/bytes. Perhaps this is the issue Scott McIntyre raised about argus-clients stopping, as he also had a 3.0.7.5 argus running.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I have put a 110K anonymized file called data.anon in ftp.qosient.com:/incoming .
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>   Michael Sanderson
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Mar 30, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Well, these are weird.  Any chance I can get a file with these records in them ??
>> >>>>>> So, any sense as to how these are generated, are they coming right off of argus ??
>> >>>>>> Carter
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> On Mar 29, 2014, at 8:44 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I have some flows with duration zero, but they don't seem to match up with the R.U.S:
>> >>>>>>>                 StartTime  Proto  Sport   Dir  Dport              TotPkts             TotBytes        Dur
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:09:49.460105      1 0x0303   <-> 0x62ea                    2                   61   0.069073
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:09:49.473637      1 0x0303   <-  0x60ea     2182690890685501     2495973268128260   0.028096
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:11:26.413780      1 0x0303   <-  0x68ea     1910394259086494     1915658761929220   0.032138
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:11:26.427968      1 0x0303   <-  0x6aea     2019091291413663      612496964846084   0.006739
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:11:52.824234      1 0x0303    -> 0x72ea                    1                   70   0.000000
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:11:52.832111      1 0x0303    -> 0x70ea                    1                   70   0.000000
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:12:46.868043      1 0x0303    -> 0x78ea                 1280                34305   0.010306
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:12:46.878386      1 0x0303   <-  0x76ea     3837314156567791      167070201545220   0.011786
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:13:02.693644      1 0x0303    -> 0x62ea                    1                   70   0.000000
>> >>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:13:02.693721      1 0x0303    -> 0x64ea                    1                   70   0.000000
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Cheers,
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Jesse
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>> Hey Jesse,
>> >>>>>>> What was the duration of these flows ??  If zero, we had a bug a while back where splitting records used an uninitialed chunk of memory.
>> >>>>>>> If the duration is zero (only one packet) I'm thinking this maybe the result of that bug  ??
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Carter
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> On Mar 29, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> I noticed a few odd records in our argus data the other day, and I'm a bit stumped as to how they might have gotten there...I see these:
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>                 StartTime                 LastTime  Proto  Sport   Dir  Dport              TotPkts             TotBytes
>> >>>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:09:49.473637 03/25/14 11:09:49.501733      1 0x0303   <-  0x60ea     2182690890685501     2495973268128260
>> >>>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:11:26.413780 03/25/14 11:11:26.445918      1 0x0303   <-  0x68ea     1910394259086494     1915658761929220
>> >>>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:11:26.427968 03/25/14 11:11:26.434707      1 0x0303   <-  0x6aea     2019091291413663      612496964846084
>> >>>>>>>>  03/25/14 11:12:46.878386 03/25/14 11:12:46.890172      1 0x0303   <-  0x76ea     3837314156567791      167070201545220
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> These records all had the same source and destination address. Does anyone have a theory? My guess is either corruption of the data (seems unlikely in this case) or perhaps something had issue parsing these particular records (racluster, rasplit)?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Any suggestions from the list on how I might figure out more about these records or how they might have been generated?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Cheers,
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Jesse
>> >>>>>>>> --
>> >>>>>>>> Jesse Bowling
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> --
>> >>>>>>> Jesse Bowling
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jesse Bowling
>> 
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