Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Odd traffic help

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:06:43 -0700
Ruiz, Mike wrote:
I was hoping someone out there can help me determine what some unusual traffic I’m seeing from a workstation on my network really is. The traffic is multicast to destination ip 234.2.3.4 with a varying source port and a destination port of UDP 7000 always at the next layer it determines it is reliable UDP (RUDP). It says its Malformed Cisco SM protocol

That's because the only dissector Ethereal has for UDP traffic on port 7000 is for the Cisco "Reliable UDP" protocol, but that's probably not what this is.

A Google for

	"port 7000" udp

finds some pages that speak about AFS3, but you probably don't have AFS (Andrew File System) installed. It found a page

	http://www.by-users.co.uk/faqs/security/which-port/

which lists what, by the names, sounds like various Trojans, etc. using various ports.

It also finds pages that mentions EverCrack^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest software - and also finds a page:

	http://www.usr.com/support/9105/9105-ug/appendix.html

which says

2. Window's[sic] Media Player uses TCP port 1755 from the player to connect to the server and uses UDP port 7000-7007 to perform the actual streaming of data.

As you mention it being multicast, I suspect it's Windows Media Player traffic.