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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:00:51 -0700
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: Marco van de Voort <Marcov@stack.nl>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboot
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Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
> I know this is not meant as a bug reporting list, but since I'm on it
> for other purposes, I thought I could sent it in anyway.
> 
> I trashed a FreeBSD (probably 3.4, I get the exact version mailed
> next week) by creating a bash script that contained
> 
> ping  xxx.yyy.zzz.vvv &
> 
> line 15 times, and executing the script in the background several
> times (more like 10) from the commandline with
> 
> script &
> 
> (we were trying to slow down my roommates win98 laptop from the
> FreeBSD dorm firewall machine,  over internal dorm network only).
> Needless to say the roommate wasn't impressed when the
> FreeBSD machine rebooted, and the win98 machine only slowed
> down minimally :-)

Ugh.

Next time, just become root and ping -f that Win98 machine.  Running
lots of pings isn't going to get you what you're trying for, even if
you don't crash your FreeBSD machine.

Another great program for offing Windows boxes is spray.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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