SUMMARY: Re: TCP errors in SE toolkit.

From: Adam and Christine Levin (levins@westnet.com)
Date: Mon Dec 06 1999 - 09:55:24 CST


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:
> Does anybody know why I'd see:
> TCP Stack - Incoming connection refused: invalid port, RST sent
> I'm seeing it very often, like every few seconds, while I'm monitoring one
> of our systems with SE toolkit.

Thanks to:
Larry Garrett <Larry_Garrett@csx.com>
Scott Ruffner <jpr9c@cs.virginia.edu>

Either I'm being probed for a service that's not active, or there are just
some requests coming in for ports that aren't being used. Either way, it
shouldn't be much to worry about unless they start coming hard and fast,
which might mean someone probing in order to attack our systems.

Thanks,
-Adam

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