Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ping traffic in the network

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From: "Pugazhendhi Pargunan" <pparguna@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:47:08 -0400
In one of our remote subnets, I see a lot of ping traffic from workstations to the local domain controller in the local area network-The ping traffic was large in size everyday varying from 3 gb to 14gb for each workstation.

I cannot find any viruses, or tyrojans on these workstations and the domain controllers also- I also don't see any unnecessary processes runnning on them. But still, I see log of Ping traffic in the local subnet.

I installed ethereal on the domain controllers and I see several Icmp packets everyday from each workstation along with TCP packets and SMB traffic.

I am sending the packet info from one of the ICMP packet -Can some one see anything from this? Like this, I am getting several packets from workstations in the local network-

No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info 570 71.287323 10.21.16.121 10.21.16.2 ICMP Echo (ping) request

Frame 570 (74 bytes on wire, 74 bytes captured)
   Arrival Time: Jun  1, 2005 13:18:55.103798000
   Time delta from previous packet: 0.018483000 seconds
   Time since reference or first frame: 71.287323000 seconds
   Frame Number: 570
   Packet Length: 74 bytes
   Capture Length: 74 bytes
Ethernet II, Src: 00:01:02:d6:49:3d, Dst: 00:03:47:0e:08:65
   Destination: 00:03:47:0e:08:65 (10.21.16.2)
   Source: 00:01:02:d6:49:3d (10.21.16.121)
   Type: IP (0x0800)
Internet Protocol, Src Addr: 10.21.16.121 (10.21.16.121), Dst Addr: 10.21.16.2 (10.21.16.2)
   Version: 4
   Header length: 20 bytes
   Differentiated Services Field: 0x00 (DSCP 0x00: Default; ECN: 0x00)
       0000 00.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Default (0x00)
       .... ..0. = ECN-Capable Transport (ECT): 0
       .... ...0 = ECN-CE: 0
   Total Length: 60
   Identification: 0xe488 (58504)
   Flags: 0x00
       0... = Reserved bit: Not set
       .0.. = Don't fragment: Not set
       ..0. = More fragments: Not set
   Fragment offset: 0
   Time to live: 32
   Protocol: ICMP (0x01)
   Header checksum: 0x8194 (correct)
   Source: 10.21.16.121 (10.21.16.121)
   Destination: 10.21.16.2 (10.21.16.2)
Internet Control Message Protocol
   Type: 8 (Echo (ping) request)
   Code: 0
   Checksum: 0x9c5a (correct)
   Identifier: 0x0200
   Sequence number: 0xb103
   Data (32 bytes)

0000  41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4a 4b 4c 4d 4e 4f 50   ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
0010  51 52 53 54 55 56 57 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49   QRSTUVWABCDEFGHI

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