From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jan 18 9: 4:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from revelex.com (revelex.com [207.61.176.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893B114C2F for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:04:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonf@revelex.com) Received: from server (tootle@nt.revelex.com [10.0.0.9]) by revelex.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA32327 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:59:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002801bf61de$b2663560$0900000a@server> From: "Jonathan Fortin" To: Subject: TCP/IP Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:06:07 -0600 Organization: Revelex Corp. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0025_01BF61AC.67008620" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01BF61AC.67008620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I noticed that most of the firewalls out there don't cover protection = e.g, on a denial of service attack, it should ignore the whole protocol but only allow packets with 3k in lenght. etc. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01BF61AC.67008620 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I noticed that most of the firewalls out there don't = cover=20 protection e.g, on a denial of service attack, it should ignore the = whole=20 protocol

but only allow packets with 3k in lenght.=20 etc.

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