From route@onyx.infonexus.com Sun Sep 15 11:50:40 1996 Received: from onyx.infonexus.com (plugHead@onyx.infonexus.com [204.162.164.220]) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) with SMTP id LAA19634 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:49:26 +1000 From: route@onyx.infonexus.com Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 501); 15 Sep 1996 01:52:14 -0000 Message-ID: <19960915015214.27942.qmail@onyx.infonexus.com> Subject: Re: BoS: ping flood To: sricca@worldcom.ch (Alfy) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Cc: best-of-security@suburbia.net In-Reply-To: <199609150007.CAA07558@worldcom.ch> from "Alfy" at Sep 15, 96 02:07:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alfy's thoughts were: | | hello do you people know if there's a way for a system admin to prevent ping | floods from faster machines and which may cause a hudge slowdown of the | connection ? Drop ICMP_ECHO packets at the router. There is nothing one can do to *stop* ICMP_ECHO floods, one can only ignore them... -- [ route@infonexus.com ] Editor, Phrack Magazine / Member, Guild Corporation the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist