- Easyping 2 3 – Ping Client To Determine Host Accessibility Tool
- Easyping 2 3 – Ping Client To Determine Host Accessibility Guide
The following command checks read/write access for an NFSv3 client with the IP address 1.2.3.4 to the volume home2. The command output shows that the volume uses the export policy exp-home-dir and that access is denied. Cluster1:: vserver export-policy check-access -vserver vs1 -client-ip 1.2.3.4 -volume home2 -authentication-method sys -protocol nfs3 -access-type read-write Policy Policy. EasyPing 2.5 – Ping client to determine host accessibility. November 8, 2017 EasyPing is a network scanning tool for Mac users to test whether a particular host is accessible across an IP network.
Ping is a very useful standard utility that is used to test the connection between computers. It can be found built into Windows as early as Windows 95 and up to the current Windows 8.1 and even on other operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS. Normally when there is a connection problem for a computer, the first thing an administrator or technician would do is run a ping test between the computers and see if there is a reply. If there is a ping reply, it rules out that the problem is related to the network connection.
Macbreakz 5 34 cm. As useful as it is, hackers can also use ping to scan a network subnet to find potential online computers that are easy to break into due to misconfiguration on the security settings or download your files from folders that are openly shared without authentication. That is why there are situations when there is no need to reply to ping requests such as when you’re connected to a public Wi-Fi. Even the newer Windows operating systems are smart enough to block ping requests if you’ve selected your network location as public network.
If you want to disable or enable ping requests, here we’ll show you some common places to check.
First of all, you need to determine if you want to enable or disable ping reply on an internal or external network. For external ping request, you’ll need to configure your router instead of your computer. To see if an external source can ping your IP address, visit ping.eu, click on your IP address that is shown on the webpage and click the Go button. If you see a 100% packet loss that means your router/network is already safe from external ping. However, if ping.eu shows result like the screenshot below, that means your router/network is responding to ping requests.You may want to refer to your router’s manual on how to access your router’s configuration and check the firewall settings. Below is a screenshot of a Belkin ADSL router’s settings that can be configured to block ICMP ping. Some routers have very straight forward setting on how to block WAN ping while some can be quite difficult to configure for a novice user.
To enable or disable ping replies for your computer or laptop on an internal network (an example is when you’re connected to a public Wi-Fi), this can be achieved either through the Windows settings or a third party firewall software.
1. ZoneAlarm Free Firewall
For ZoneAlarm Free Firewall, there are only two zones in the software which is Public and Trusted. Zones in ZoneAlarm is automatically selected based on the network location profile in Windows. For example, if you’ve selected Home network as the network location for a Wi-Fi connection, then ZoneAlarm automatically sets the zone as Trusted and vice versa.
If your computer is responding to ping queries, then disabling ping response is as easy as changing the zone from Trusted to Public ZoneAlarm. Launch ZoneAlarm, go to FIREWALL tab, and click on View Zones for Basic Firewall.
At the View Zones tab, select the network that you’re connected to and click the Edit button. Click the dropdown menu for zone and select Public.
If you want to re-enable ping reply, set the network zone back to Trusted.
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2. Emsisoft Online Armor Free
Emsisoft Online Armor Free will automatically disable ping reply and there is no way to configure the firewall rules to re-enable ping. Unlike the paid version where you can switch to advanced mode to configure the ICMP rules, the free version doesn’t allow you to switch to advanced mode but only allows standard mode. So if you are using the free edition of Online Armor, what you can do is temporarily disable the Firewall protection by right clicking on the Online Armor tray icon and click on Firewall to deselect the checkbox.
If you are using the paid version, run Online Armor, go to Options > General tab > switch to Advanced Mode. Click on Firewall at the left sidebar of the program, go to ICMP tab > select the allowed checkbox for function 0 which is the Echo reply.
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3. Comodo Free Firewall
Comodo automatically decides if ping should be allowed or blocked based on the network zone that you’ve selected for a connected network.
If you’ve selected either Home or Work, then ping is allowed. However the Public Place network zone blocks ping requests. If you’ve selected Public Place and want to enable ping requests, you can manually configure the global rules to allow ping instead of block.
Right click on the Comodo Firewall tray icon located at the notification area and select Advanced View. Right click on the Comodo Firewall tray icon again, go to Firewall and select Settings. Expand Security Settings > Firewall and select Global Rules. Double click on the rule that says “Block ICMPv4 In From MAC Any To MAC Any Where ICMP Message Is ECHO REQUEST” and change the action from Block to Allow. Click OK to close the firewall rule window and OK again to save the changes.
Alternatively, you can also temporarily disable the firewall from the tray icon to allow Ping replies. Don’t exit or terminate the program because the firewall will still be active even though the tray icon is not shown at the notification area.
On the other hand, if you’re on a Home or Work network zone that allows ping requests and you want to disable ping replies, you just need to move the firewall rule located at the bottom that blocks all ICMP echo request all the way to the top so that it overrides the first two rules that allows all incoming and outgoing requests if target/sender is in home/work zone.
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4. Windows Firewall
It is actually not necessary to rely on third party firewall software to enable or disable ping replies as Windows Firewall can be configured to do that.
4a. Press the WIN key, type WINDOWS FIREWALL and run it.
4b. Click on Advanced settings located at the left hand sidebar.
4c. Click on Inbound Rules at the left pane.
4d. Click Action from the menu bar and select New Rule.
4e. Click on Custom and click Next.
4f. Make sure the All programs option is selected and click Next.
4g. Click on the Protocol type drop down menu, select ICMPv4 and click Next.
4h. Make sure both “Any IP address” is selected and click Next.
4i. If you want to enable ping when you are connected to a public network, select “Allow the connection”. If you want to block ping even when you are connected to home network, select “Block the connection” option and click Next.
4j. You can leave all the checkboxes ticked for the profiles and click Next.
4k. Give this new rule any name you like, for example block ping or allow ping and click Finish. The newly created firewall rule will take effect instantly without requiring a reboot.
Additional Note: In the Windows operating system, selecting your network location as Home or Work will allow ping while the Public network profile will block ping. The above Windows Firewall rule will override the network location rule.
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When a host is infected or otherwise compromised, security professionals need to quickly review packet captures (pcaps) of suspicious network traffic to identify affected hosts and users.
This tutorial offers tips on how to gather that pcap data using Wireshark, the widely used network protocol analysis tool. It assumes you understand network traffic fundamentals and will use these pcaps of IPv4 traffic to cover retrieval of four types of data:
- Host information from DHCP traffic
- Host information from NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS) traffic
- Device models and operating systems from HTTP traffic
- Windows user account from Kerberos traffic
Host Information from DHCP Traffic
Any host generating traffic within your network should have three identifiers: a MAC address, an IP address, and a hostname.
In most cases, alerts for suspicious activity are based on IP addresses. If you have access to full packet capture of your network traffic, a pcap retrieved on an internal IP address should reveal an associated MAC address and hostname.
How do we find such host information using Wireshark? We filter on two types of activity: DHCP or NBNS. DHCP traffic can help identify hosts for almost any type of computer connected to your network. NBNS traffic is generated primarily by computers running Microsoft Windows or Apple hosts running MacOS.
The first pcap for this tutorial, host-and-user-ID-pcap-01.pcap, is available here. This pcap is for an internal IP address at 172.16.1[.]207. Open the pcap in Wireshark and filter on bootp as shown in Figure 1. This filter should reveal the DHCP traffic.
Note: With Wireshark 3.0, you must use the search term dhcp instead of bootp.
Figure 1: Filtering on DHCP traffic in Wireshark
Select one of the frames that shows DHCP Request in the info column. Go to the frame details section and expand the line for Bootstrap Protocol (Request) as shown in Figure 2. Expand the lines for Client Identifier and Host Name as indicated in Figure 3. Client Identifier details should reveal the MAC address assigned to 172.16.1[.]207, and Host Name details should reveal a hostname.
Figure 2: Expanding Bootstrap Protocol line from a DHCP request
Figure 3: Finding the MAC address and hostname in a DHCP request
In this case, the hostname for 172.16.1[.]207 is Rogers-iPad and the MAC address is 7c:6d:62:d2:e3:4f. This MAC address is assigned to Apple. Based on the hostname, this device is likely an iPad, but we cannot confirm solely on the hostname.
We can easily correlate the MAC address and IP address for any frame with 172.16.1[.]207 as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Correlating the MAC address with the IP address from any frame
Host Information from NBNS Traffic
Depending on how frequently a DHCP lease is renewed, you might not have DHCP traffic in your pcap. Fortunately, we can use NBNS traffic to identify hostnames for computers running Microsoft Windows or Apple hosts running MacOS.
The second pcap for this tutorial, host-and-user-ID-pcap-02.pcap, is available here. This pcap is from a Windows host using an internal IP address at 10.2.4[.]101. Open the pcap in Wireshark and filter on nbns. This should reveal the NBNS traffic. Select the first frame, and you can quickly correlate the IP address with a MAC address and hostname as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Correlating hostname with IP and MAC address using NBNS traffic
The frame details section also shows the hostname assigned to an IP address as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Frame details for NBNS traffic showing the hostname assigned to an IP address
Device Models and Operating Systems from HTTP Traffic
User-agent strings from headers in HTTP traffic can reveal the operating system. If the HTTP traffic is from an Android device, you might also determine the manufacturer and model of the device.
The third pcap for this tutorial, host-and-user-ID-pcap-03.pcap, is available here. This pcap is from a Windows host using an internal IP address at 192.168.1[.]97. Open the pcap in Wireshark and filter on http.request and !(ssdp). Select the second frame, which is the first HTTP request to www.ucla[.]edu, and follow the TCP stream as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7: Following the TCP stream for an HTTP request in the third pcap
This TCP stream has HTTP request headers as shown in Figure 8. The User-Agent line represents Google Chrome web browser version 72.0.3626[.]81 running on Microsoft’s Windows 7 x64 operating system.
Figure 8: The User-Agent line for a Windows 7 x64 host using Google Chrome
Note the following string in the User-Agent line from Figure 8:
(Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64)
Windows NT 6.1 represents Windows 7. For User-Agent lines, Windows NT strings represent the following versions of Microsoft Windows as shown below:
- Windows NT 5.1: Windows XP
- Windows NT 6.0: Windows Vista
- Windows NT 6.1: Windows 7
- Windows NT 6.2: Windows 8
- Windows NT 6.3: Windows 8.1
- Windows NT 10.0: Windows 10
With HTTP-based web browsing traffic from a Windows host, you can determine the operating system and browser. The same type of traffic from Android devices can reveal the brand name and model of the device.
The fourth pcap for this tutorial, host-and-user-ID-pcap-04.pcap, is available here. This pcap is from an Android host using an internal IP address at 172.16.4.119. Open the pcap in Wireshark and filter on http.request. Select the second frame, which is the HTTP request to www.google[.]com for /blank.html. Follow the TCP stream as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9: Following the TCP stream for an HTTP request in the fourth pcap Carbon copy cloner 5 1 3 (5458) download free.
Figure 10: The User-Agent line for an Android host using Google Chrome
The User-Agent line in Figure 10 shows Android 7.1.2 which is an older version of the Android operating system released in April 2017. LM-X210APM represents a model number for this Android device. A quick Google search reveals this model is an LG Phoenix 4 Android smartphone.
The User-Agent line for HTTP traffic from an iPhone or other Apple mobile device will give you the operating system, and it will give you the type of device. However, it will not give you a model. We can only determine if the Apple device is an iPhone, iPad, or iPod. We cannot determine the model.
The fifth pcap for this tutorial, host-and-user-ID-pcap-05.pcap, is available here. This pcap is from an iPhone host using an internal IP address at 10.0.0[.]114. Open the pcap in Wireshark and filter on http.request. Select the frame for the first HTTP request to web.mta[.]info and follow the TCP stream as shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11: Following the TCP stream for an HTTP request in the fifth pcap
In Figure 12, the User-Agent line shows (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1_3 like Mac OS X). This indicates the Apple device is an iPhone, and it is running iOS 12.1.3.
Figure 12: The User-Agent line for an iPhone using Safari
Easyping 2 3 – Ping Client To Determine Host Accessibility Tool
A final note about HTTP traffic and User-Agent strings: not all HTTP activity is web browsing traffic. Some HTTP requests will not reveal a browser or operating system. When you search through traffic to identify a host, you might have to try several different HTTP requests before finding web browser traffic.
Since more websites are using HTTPS, this method of host identification can be difficult. HTTP headers and content are not visible in HTTPS traffic. However, for those lucky enough to find HTTP web-browsing traffic during their investigation, this method can provide more information about a host.
Windows User Account from Kerberos Traffic
For Windows hosts in an Active Directory (AD) environment, we can find user account names in from Kerberos traffic.
The sixth pcap for this tutorial, host-and-user-ID-pcap-06.pcap, is available here. This pcap is from a Windows host in the following AD environment:
- Domain: happycraft[.]org
- Network segment: 172.16.8.0/24 (172.16.8[.]0 – 172.16.8[.]255)
- Domain controller IP: 172.16.8[.]8
- Domain controller hostname: Happycraft-DC
- Segment gateway: 172.16.8[.]1
- Broadcast address: 172.16.8[.]255
- Windows client: 172.16.8[.]201
Open the pcap in Wireshark and filter on kerberos.CNameString. Select the first frame. Go to the frame details section and expand lines as shown in Figure 13. Select the line with CNameString: johnson-pc$ and apply it as a column.
Figure 13: Finding the CNameString value and applying it as a column
This should create a new column titled CNameString. Scroll down to the last frames in the column display. You should find a user account name for theresa.johnson in traffic between the domain controller at 172.16.8[.]8 and the Windows client at 172.16.8[.]201 as shown in Figure 14.
Figure 14: Finding the Windows user account name
CNameString values for hostnames always end with a $ (dollar sign), while user account names do not. To filter on user account names, use the following Wireshark expression to eliminate CNameString results with a dollar sign:
kerberos.CNameString and !(kerberos.CNameString contains $)
Summary
Proper identification of hosts and users from network traffic is essential when reporting malicious activity in your network. Using the methods from this tutorial, we can better utilize Wireshark to help us identify affected hosts and users.
For more help using Wireshark, please see our previous tutorials:
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