delay of reply on ping and high cpu usage

Dec 04, 2006 1 Replies
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hi all I have cisco 2514 router ,some times when i ping to it (from internal lan) it resbond it 500 to 1200 ms and give a lot of packet loss, and this goes for about two houres and then finished and the router gets back to its normal work (ping replyes with 10-20 ms at most) while these 2 houres the cpu utilization varies from 85% to 90% . i think there is a machine inside that is the reason for thatwhen send a lot of



traffic . how can i detect the ip of this machine. and how to be sure it not from outside, and if it was from outside, how



to detect its IP and prevent it from attcking my network. i hope i can find an answer because i;m in a big trouble. thank you all.



To find the IP address of a box on the inside I would suggest to tap the wire to the router, e.g. by putting a hub between the Router and the Switch it's connected to:

Switch ------ Hub ------ Router | your PC

On your PC you run a sniffer (e.g. Wireshark [1]) to inspect the network traffic.

An outside attacker's IP should show up in the logs on your router, but I'm not really familiar with Cisco boxes. Walter Roberson can probably give you some pointers with that.

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