Feb 16,2010

Teredo “stray packet” analysis, (Tue, Feb 16th)

This investigation started with Rick observing some odd UDP traffic hitting his firewall. In this case, the traffic came from 66.55.158.116 port 3544. The destination port was a random high port. If you would like to provide your packet captures, see the end of this article for the right filter. Port 3544 is assigned to Teredo. However, Teredo itself uses this port to establish connections, not necessarily for the actual Teredo tunnel traffic itself. As a host establishes a Teredo connection, it will connect to a Teredo server on port 3544 and negotiated the details of the connection. During this negotiation, ...

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