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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:01:16 -0700
From:      Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
To:        Dave McKay <dave@mu.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Col.Panic" <panic@satan.antix.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail (fwd)
Message-ID:  <00082818023104.07327@smp.kyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000828184122.A83217@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008281105250.60987-100000@satan.antix.org> <0008281356040S.20616@smp.kyx.net> <20000828184122.A83217@elvis.mu.org>

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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Dave McKay wrote:
> An nmap scan doesn't generate 3500 icmp's per second, or 3500 of any packet
> per second.
> 
I have some special versions of nmap :-)
And the stock one will generate a lot of packets per second when you use the -f
fragmentaiton option.

> Dragos Ruiu (dr@kyx.net) wrote:
> > I get this message regularly whenever I use an application that generates
> > a lot of ICMP from a FreeBSD machine, like when I UDP nmap a FreeBSD
> > target for instance.   --dr
> > 

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