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Re: [Snort-users] Alerts of the ICMP relationship with smtp connection?

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Alerts of the ICMP relationship with smtp connection?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 02:22:20 -0500
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 13:40 -0700, Paulo wrote:
I didn't solve this yet. Please, anyone can help me?

Maybe you didn't get responses because it's not a Snort related issue.

To answer your question, read up on Path Maximum Transmit Unit (PMTU)
Discovery by googling it. Here a couple links that Google spit out right
away.

http://www.netheaven.com/pmtu.html
which also references ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1191.txt

While you are learning about PTMU, please review your firewall rule set
and make sure you don't block ALL inbound ICMP packets. Please let at
least type 3 and type 11 ICMP packets through.

(Hint: The remote mail servers are sending a large ICMP packet in order
to discover the MTU between them and you. It is harmless traffic.)

Hope that helps,
Frank

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