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Date:      Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:45:41 +1100 (Australia/NSW)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        nate@yogotech.com
Cc:        billf@chimesnet.com (Bill Fumerola), avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed), rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG (Robert Watson), dr@kyx.net (Dragos Ruiu), cjclark@alum.mit.edu, cjclark@reflexnet.net (Crist J . Clark), list@rachinsky.de (Nicolas), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw and fragments
Message-ID:  <200009040345.OAA24476@cairo.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <200009040233.UAA12035@nomad.yogotech.com> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 03, 2000 08:33:53 PM

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In some mail from Nate Williams, sie said:
> 
> > > It never reassembles and doesn't hold them in a buffer until they're
> > > all received either.
> > 
> > Which I still think is the proper behavior for both ipfw and ipfilter.
> 
> I can think of some trivially easy DoS attacks if this is done...

Ummm, what exactly would you be inflicting a DoS attack on ?

Darren


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