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heywo
04-11-06, 05:10 PM
I have just recently started looking at my router's logs, since it started to freeze almost regularly.

INCOMING LOG:
In the incoming log I noticed something I can't understand.
I'm not sure, why this router (Linksys wrt54GC) displays the entries it does. It doesn't seem to log the actual data being sent through, but something else. I mean...I have a couple of computers browsing the internet through it, but all the logs show are a lot of TCP connections to a certain port 8330.

Is this a normal situation ?

Date & Time Source IP Destination IP Port
2006-04-11 21:04:08 83.152.255.49 LAN(TCP,port 8330) WAN
2006-04-11 21:04:55 82.54.105.181 LAN(TCP,port 8330) WAN
2006-04-11 21:05:11 82.241.86.118 LAN(TCP,port 8330) WAN
2006-04-11 21:05:12 213.77.177.146 LAN(TCP,port 8330) WAN
2006-04-11 21:05:29 87.6.82.9 LAN(TCP,port 8330) WAN
2006-04-11 21:06:05 85.27.22.62 LAN(TCP,port 8330) WAN
2006-04-11 21:06:21 85.10.65.6 LAN(TCP,port 8330) WAN

If I read this correctly, all the entries show, that some TCP packets were received on the WAN port and directed to LAN (no specified LAN IP) on port 8330 ? Are these log entries shown because they have no destination ? If no, why arent there other entries, since I know other traffic was going through at time ? Why does the ruter send these packets to port 8330, since NO computer on LAN has a port opened at that number...I checked 3 times to make sure.


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I also installed Kiwi Syslog, but it displays a different log...it shows some traffic with a lot of "Blocked" entries on port 35360...continously.

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Thanks for any help on clearing this up.

Britten
04-12-06, 12:49 AM
port 8330 is usually an unassigned port that nothing uses.... regularly... so this could be a hacker or bot sweeping a block of ips looking for hosts that have been infected with a certain trojan.... or i have seen 8330 used to setup an IPv6/IPv4 proxy server.... where you forward the 8330 port on the IPv6 machine to the port 80 on the IPv4 machine.. anyway.... i dont think the incoming packets went anywhere unless you have that port forwarded to a certain internal ip or.. if you have a DMZ host setup.... this is probably nothing to be concerned about because you have a hardware firewall that is blocking these kinds of things.... so this could be anything... and probably nothing

heywo
04-12-06, 03:09 PM
Yeah, I know 8330 is not assigned to anything special (I checked a few port lists). I have no DMZ enabled or port forwarding range ithat would include 8330.

I'm not sure about a hacker scanning ips, since it hapens over a long period of time and from very different IP's (I know the second one doesn't mean that much, but I guess the time factor does, since as far as I know a scan doesn't usually keep trying on the same port number over and over again),

Thanks for the help