From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 6 00:57:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26417 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26396 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id AAA01163 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:57:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:57:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Negative IP Packets - Risky? (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Am I the only one here who upon reading this goes "Huh?" OTOH, firewall-wizards is moderated by Marcus Ranum who does not let just "any" mail through. In that case: what are negative IP packets?! -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:11:17 +0100 From: James Rowley To: "'firewall-wizards@nfr.com'" Subject: Negative IP Packets - Risky? By sending negative IP packets to a network, you can crash the server. Is anyone else aware of this & possible precautions that one can take? sincerely, James Rowley - Eudemonic Solutions, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message