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Re: Strange attacks in my log



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Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I discovered some strange log entries, which are created by
> "portsentry" (a tool for wathing port accesses).
>
> It looks like whenever I insert an USB-drive or a SD-Card, the own
> system wants to access on an UDP-Port (69 or 161). It tries also to
> access all other computers in the network. 

UDP 161 is used for SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) -- well,
it's "assigned" to that protocol, but like TCP port 53 (DNS over TCP),
it may not be used all that much.

UDP 69 is TFTP.

>
> This looks strange for me, because I can not reproduce, why inserting
> a memeory device, network activies are started. [...]

Could be triggering some service on the machine in question. What OS is
the host you're plugging this card into running?


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