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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:20:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Jim Riffle <jriffle@ns.kconline.com>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ICMP Ping Flood tracing
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.95.961122001904.6675u-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961122012316.742A-100000@ns.kconline.com>

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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Jim Riffle wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote:
> 
> > 	Is there anyway to trace ICMP Ping Floods to see where the source
> > machine is that is flooding your machine?  Thanks.
> 
> Yes, there is.  I don't know how to tell after the fact, but during it,
> you can tell when it is coming from.

	Really?  I tried netstat and can't find any ip addresses or
hostnames.

> You will want to add "pseudo-device   bpfilter 4" into your kernel
> configuration file, then config, compile, and reboot.

	Okay...

> After you have that running in your kernel, you can use the tcpdump
> program to show what is going over your network.  Or better yet, you can
> get trafshow from the ports tree and run that.

	Sounds good, is there any way to also limit ping's to 64 bytes and
not larger than that?

Vince
GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin






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