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From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
Subject: Re: Is this Ping of Death for real?
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> Due to an interesting combination of bugs, no version of FreeBSD 2.x is
> vulnerable to this attack.  The bugs are fixed in FreeBSD 2.2 and 3.0
> and they're still not vulnerable =)

I beg to differ.  One ping won't do it, but I set up a "ping -c 10000" and
let it run for a while, and FreeBSD 2.<mumble, a system at work> started
rebooting every 5 minutes or so.

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