Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:09:14 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org> To: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ping attacks: NT vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <16967.846292154@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:49:54 %2B0500." <199610251449.AA077244994@fakir.india.hp.com>
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A JOSEPH KOSHY wrote in message ID <199610251449.AA077244994@fakir.india.hp.com>: > NT 3.51 box can effectively stop all TCP/IP activity on the NT machine > --- denial of service if you may. The NT machine was on a P6/150, 32MB, > unknown ethernet card; the FreeBSD boxes were P5-100s with HP-PC Lan and PCI > D-Link cards respectively. > I'm intrigued by this behaviour. Is this common or is it just a quirk of > this specific NT configuration? Has anyone seem similar behaviour under > NT 4.0? Any ideas as to why the denial of service behaviour could be > occurring? I know that I can display the same behaviour in Win95. Actually, ping flooding a Win95 box has the interesting side affect of stopping all user interaction from the console too... :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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