This could be some sort of internal "web crawler".  A user connects to an internal web 
server or logs in locally and then makes a request from that server to find 
information from many external web sites...making it look like a Syn flood.  This 
would be normal traffic in that case.  The best way to check this is to take one of 
the interal IP addresses and track it down to identify what services are running on 
the box.  

You could also try to identify what URL's the synfloods are targetting.  Do they look 
legitimate or are they targetting a known vulnerable script or something...such as the 
Code Red exploit...

You can actually install a host based IDS on the server or put a sniffer on it so you 
can look at the bits and bytes of the traffic.  

Hope that helps.

Paul

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Iam seeing syn flood for Port 80 which in my case is a legitimate traffic.

regards
saran

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