TCP Port 179 – bgp

About TCP Port 179

Port 179 carries the IANA assignment for bgp. The IANA description reads: ‘Border Gateway Protocol’. This port appears in 3 IDS rules and does not have notable malware activity indicators in our data.

IDS Rule References

3 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 179. Treat that number as context, not a danger score. Many detection rules are written against groups of ports rather than one service, web ports especially, so common web alternate ports inherit large counts while genuinely sensitive services can show few rules or none. Presence in IDS rules does not mean traffic on this port is malicious.

Rule categories (top 2): bad-unknown (2), attempted-dos (1).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 179:

• SERVER-OTHER BGP invalid length
• SERVER-OTHER BGP invalid type 0
• SERVER-OTHER BGP spoofed connection reset attempt

Data Sources

This information is compiled from: IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry and Snort Community Rules (GPLv2).