RE: Unidentified traffic to exchange server

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:38:09 -0600

Are you saying that ICMP has a type and code?

But that doesn't work with my "Open Port" button!

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 12:33 PM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Unidentified traffic to exchange server
> 
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> In the case of ICMP, "source port" is equivalent to "ICMP 
> Type" and "destination port" is equivalent to "ICMP Code".
> Thus, the traffic you're seeing is ICMP:5.1, or "ICMP Redirect: host".
> It appears that you have some routing oddities in your network.
> Since you blanked out the IP addresses, you'll have to go 
> back and see what traffic came from the host that the 
> ICMP:5.1 traffic was destined for.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bunting, Jeff [mailto:BUNTING@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 08:56
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Unidentified traffic to exchange server
> 
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> 
> Thanks Jim, I see it shows ICMP once I add the transport 
> column.  I was thinking it would show this under the protocol 
> column which was throwing me off.
> 
> I checked the system policy and see that rule #11, ICMP 
> requests from ISA are enabled.  I take it this indicates the 
> traffic isn't being seen as ICMP Info Request, Timestamp, or Ping? 
> 
> Since you said it sounds like an ICMP response, I tried 
> filtering by the client ip of the exchange server, but I 
> don't see any traffic destined for the ISA internal address.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> log snip:  (I tried sending as a CSV attachment so it would 
> be readable, but I think the listserv doesn't like that).  
> .38 is ISA and .16 is Exchange
> 
> Original Client IP    Client Agent    Authenticated Client    Service
> Server Name   Referring Server        Destination Host Name   HTTP
> Method        URL     MIME Type       Object Source   Source Proxy
> Destination Proxy     Bidirectional   Client Host Name        Filter
> Information   Network Interface       Raw IP Header   Processing Time
> HTTP Status Code      Cache Information       Log Record Type Log Time
> Destination IP        Destination Port        Protocol        
> Action        Rule
> Client IP     Source Network  Destination Network     Result Code
> Error Information     Bytes Received  Bytes Sent      Source Port
> Raw Payload   Client Username Transport
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> xx.xx.xx.38                           BORDERGUARD     -
> -     -       -                                               -
> 0             0x0     Firewall        3/17/2006 11:17 xx.xx.xx.16
> 1     Unidentified IP Traffic Denied Connection       Default rule
> xx.xx.xx.38   Local Host      Internal        0xc004000d
> FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED     0x0     0       0       5
> ICMP
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:25 AM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Unidentified traffic to exchange server
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> Log snip?
> This is sounding more like an ICMP response than anything else.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bunting, Jeff [mailto:BUNTING@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:48 AM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] Unidentified traffic to exchange server
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> 
> I'm seeing repeated denied connections from the internal ISA 
> NIC to the backend Exchange server in ths ISA logs.  They all 
> have source port of 5 and destination of 1 and show protocol 
> as "unidentified ip traffic".
> result code is "0xc004000d FWX_E_POLICY_RULES_DENIED".
> 
> Anyone have an idea what might be wrong? 
> 
> ISA 2004 SP1, Exchange 2003 SP2.  I have OWA published from 
> FE and RPC over HTTP set up. 
> Also have POP3S and SMTPS published, but no one is using it.  
> Inbound SMTP is going to the FE server. 
> 
> thanks,
> Jeff 
> 
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