sygate ping of death?

SimonC · 16 Apr 2008 at 21:34

I've never seen this come up before, I started to download two episodes from bbc iplayer and within 10 seconds of the downloads starting I got a ping of death message from sygate. I've back traced it and gotten this website http://www.arin.net/reference/rfc/rfc1918.txt

whats ping of death and that site about, has it got something to do with bbc iplayer?

AbsenceJam · 16 Apr 2008 at 21:37

Ignore it, in fact set it not to pop anything up (hide notification messages is the setting in sygate). Firewalls give all sorts of nonsense messages.

SimonC · 16 Apr 2008 at 22:58

Thanks

didn't think it was anything to be worried about but wanted to make sure.

HEADRAT · 16 Apr 2008 at 23:11

If it's a RFC1918 address it not even a routable address

following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

SimonC · 16 Apr 2008 at 23:55

Yeah it does say RFC1918, remote host 192.168.2.2
But I have no idea what you or it means. :rolleyes:

AbsenceJam · 16 Apr 2008 at 23:59

Means it's a private address that isn't used on the interweb, only locally.

SimonC · 17 Apr 2008 at 01:52

only locally, whats that mean. Me? lol for the stupid q's

Lagmeister · 17 Apr 2008 at 12:51

Means that someone is probably on your local network i.e. they have a physical / wireless connection to you, most likely meaning someone is sat on your wireless network, check that your wireless router is secure.

RFC's = Request For Comments, its a standards type thing, you throw out ideas into an RFC for protocols and such

SimonC · 17 Apr 2008 at 13:56

I think the router is secure enough, using wpa-psk with a long word and number password, also turned the ssid off is that okay?

swinnie · 17 Apr 2008 at 17:13

SimonC said:
I think the router is secure enough, using wpa-psk with a long word and number password, also turned the ssid off is that okay?

Never use words in wireless passwords, use a jumble of numbers and letters.

Turning off SSID is ok.

If you have the option enable MAC Filtering. This is where computers with a specific MAC Address assigned to their wireless network card will be able to access the network, along with knowing and entering the encryption key.

However, MAC Addresses can be spoofed very easily, but then by turning off the SSID being broadcast the hacker will have to know the SSID, have a valid MAC Address AND know the pass key.

AbsenceJam · 17 Apr 2008 at 17:37

Lagmeister said:
Means that someone is probably on your local network i.e. they have a physical / wireless connection to you, most likely meaning someone is sat on your wireless network, check that your wireless router is secure.

RFC's = Request For Comments, its a standards type thing, you throw out ideas into an RFC for protocols and such

Nobody is on his network...

Lagmeister · 17 Apr 2008 at 18:24

Probably isn't, but there is no harm in beefing up security ever

SimonC · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:51

Ok, i've enabled the wireless access list and changed the password.

SimonC · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:52

Just looking at the log again and it said that that ping of death was outgoing?