Any way to get more info from the received tcpip packet?

[jlavera]

Hi

My rest webserver is receiving lots of "nothing" packets, sometimes so many that jams the service. If I see the content of the packet from within Nettalk, is 0 length. Is there any way to obtain more information about the packet from the rest server program, perhaps the tcpip header? Somehow it is being routed there.

Kind regards,
Jorge Lavera

[Bruce]

Hi Jorge,

I'm not sure exactly what you are hoping to find out? The senders IP address? that's already available (see the log).

Generally speaking, if you have a server on the internet you will get a _lot_ of "traffic" - both empty connections, and very obvious malicious requests, all the time. You can expect probably hundreds, if not thousands of these per day. there's nothing you can do about this, except understand that they are harmless.

If you get bombarded from a single IP address then you can "ban" the address as a short term measure.

Cheers
Bruce