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eth protocol 806(arp)

Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:29 pm

Hi All,
Need help, i have router board 450G and after monitoring LAN have high traffic, after checking at torch menu i find
eth protocol 806(arp) with dst address 0.0.0.0 with high traffic data.

How to know and block that packet,
cause LAN its runing slow effect from that.

Thanks, waiting for info
 
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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:33 pm

Note the source MAC address that's originating the ARPs and then find the device with that MAC address.
Usually such traffic is actually a symptom caused by something else -

How high of a traffic volume are you seeing?
 
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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:08 am

how to know mac from the arp, cause At the arp not detected, cause source at torch its blank, 20-70 mbps for traffic local from the port.

need your help for any solution.

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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:08 pm

Your ARP traffic is probably not the source of your problems, but a result.
You need to find out what is trying to send traffic to nonexistant addresses on your LAN and block that traffic
more upstream. Probably you are the victim of a DDOS.
 
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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Sun Mar 13, 2016 2:23 am

How to find the traffic and block it? cause i try to block the port, still same.
need help cause this case make me confuse.

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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:20 am

You need to look more upstream (or at least on the incoming port of your router) what suspect traffic is
coming in to addresses that are within your subnet but are for addresses that are not active.

Once you identified that, you will probably not be able to do much yourself, but you need to talk to your
upstream provider to see if they can block this traffic. This is of course only possible when it can be
recognized as the unwanted traffic.

DDOS is a difficult problem. There is no simple fix, or everyone would apply it. Most solutions involve
a lot of expensive hardware, and so they are often offloaded to specialized companies.

Also in some cases it may be worthwhile to find why people want to bring down your service.
You may be able to solve that issue and the DDOS might stop.
 
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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Mon Mar 14, 2016 2:24 am

Sir,
Incoming traffic from user, for Upstream its clear n traffic running normal, for the first action maybe i will block the DDos, have that rule can impact to solved the problem.
i hope any idea if thats rule not solved the problem.

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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Mon Mar 14, 2016 4:40 am

can u show me image capture the eth proto when u torch it?
 
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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:03 am

this capture from torch
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Re: eth protocol 806(arp)

Mon Mar 14, 2016 4:40 pm

IMO its normal ARP packet but that make weird is it has consumed alot of yours bandwidth

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