We are under a heavy icmp flood attack. Tcpdump shows the result below. Altough we have blocked ICMP with iptables tcpdump still prints icmp packets. I've also attached iptables configuration and "top" result. Is there any thing I can do to completely stop icmp packets?
[root@server downloads]# tcpdump icmp -v -n -nn
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
03:02:47.810957 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16007, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 124, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.811559 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16010, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 52, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.811922 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16012, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 122, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.812485 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16015, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 126, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.812613 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16016, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 122, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.812992 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16018, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 122, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.813582 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16020, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 52, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.814092 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16023, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 120, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.814233 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16024, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 120, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.815579 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16025, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 50, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.815726 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16026, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 50, id 31864, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 76) 77.92.136.196 > 94.201.175.188: [|icmp]
03:02:47.815890 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 49, id 16027, offset 0, flags [none], proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) 80.227.64.183 > 77.92.136.196: ICMP redirect 94.201.175.188 to host 80.227.64.129, length 36
iptables configuration:
[root@server etc]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ofis tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:mysql
ofis tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp
DROP icmp -- anywhere anywhere
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
DROP icmp -- anywhere anywhere
Chain ofis (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- OUR_OFFICE_IP anywhere
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere
top:
top - 03:12:19 up 400 days, 15:43, 3 users, load average: 1.49, 1.67, 2.61
Tasks: 751 total, 3 running, 748 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.2%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.9%id, 2.1%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 32949948k total, 26906844k used, 6043104k free, 4707676k buffers
Swap: 10223608k total, 0k used, 10223608k free, 14255584k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
36 root 39 19 0 0 0 R 100.8 0.0 17:03.56 ksoftirqd/11
10552 root 15 0 11408 1460 676 R 5.7 0.0 0:00.04 top
7475 lighttpd 15 0 304m 22m 15m S 3.8 0.1 0:05.37 php-cgi
1294 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 380:54.73 kjournald
3574 root 15 0 631m 11m 5464 S 1.9 0.0 0:00.65 node
7766 lighttpd 16 0 302m 19m 14m S 1.9 0.1 0:05.70 php-cgi
10237 postfix 15 0 52572 2216 1692 S 1.9 0.0 0:00.02 scache
1 root 15 0 10372 680 572 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.99 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:16.72 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:10.46 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.11 ksoftirqd/1
7 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:36.15 migration/2
9 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.19 ksoftirqd/2
10 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/2
11 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 3:48.91 migration/3
12 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 ksoftirqd/3
13 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/3
uname -a
[root@server etc]# uname -a
Linux thisis.oursite.com 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 15 07:31:24 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
arp -an
[root@server downloads]# arp -an
? (77.92.136.194) at 00:25:90:04:F0:90 [ether] on eth0
? (192.168.0.2) at 00:25:90:04:F0:91 [ether] on eth1
? (77.92.136.193) at 00:23:9C:0B:CD:01 [ether] on eth0