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Rule numbers initiated by Embedded NGX


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Platform: Embedded NGX Firmware 5.x and higher
Product: Check Point SmartCenter or CMA, SofaWare Management Portal (Check Point SMP), Syslog server
Problem: When e.g. VPN-1 Edge is logging to a Log server, negative rule numbers might show up
Workaround/Fix: Here you find a list of the negative numbers which might be seen in the SmartView Tracker. Please note, that [5] shows messages which might occur with Firmware 5.x, all others can be seen in Firmware 6.x and above only. 
Rule # Reason
-1 Stateless ICMP, answer without request or ICMP error not referring to an established connection stored in the State Tables [5]
-4 Anti-Spoofing, packet does not match automatic configuration of Anti-Spoofing [5]
-5 Custom rule with logging, configured by the administrator

-9

Hot Spot, user has not authenticated successfully, but tried to open a connection
-10 Encryption mismatch, packet should be encrypted, but is received in clear text [5]
-11 Packet out of state, not matching the State Tables [5]
-12 Land Attack
-13 Ping size too big, to be configured in SmartDefense
-14 ICMP with Null payload
-15 Welchia ICMP worm
-16 Christmas packet with too many TCP flags set [5]
-17 Cisco IOS Denial-of-Service attack
-18 Connections exceed allowed Network Quota, to be configured in SmartDefense
-19 FTP Bounce attack against FTP server
-20 FTP port command overflow
-21 FTP port command tried to open a known port
-22 FTP: Illegal command
-23 KaZaA traffic detected, to be configured in SmartDefense
-24 Skype traffic detected, to be configured in SmartDefense
-25 BitTorrent traffic detected, to be configured in SmartDefense
-26 eMule traffic detected, to be configured in SmartDefense
-27 Gnutella traffic detected, to be configured in SmartDefense
-28 ICQ traffic detected, to be configured in SmartDefense
-29 Yahoo traffic detected, to be configured in SmartDefense
-30 Short IGMP packets detected
-31 IGMP packet with bad TTL detected
-32 IGMP packet not sent to a multicast address
-33 Vertical Port Scan Traffic
-34 Horizontal Port Scan Traffic
-35 FTP Data Traffic
-36 ICMP Replay Attack
-37 TCP Reset Replay Attack
-38 Winny Traffic
-39 Packet should not have been encrypted
-40 MSN Messenger Traffic

Please remember to upgrade LibSW at the SmartCenter
when upgrading the Firmware of a Check Point Embedded Gateway! 

 


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