North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
On Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 04:03:04PM -0400, Netstat Webmaster wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > What he's saying is that someone is mounting broadcast ping flooding > > attacks with forged source addresses which make them appear to be > > coming from MAE-East, among other places. > > mmmm... no. The forged source address is that of the victim. The listed > broadcast addresses are the destinations of the packets with the forged > address of the victim. The broadcast addresses are never forged. Really? Hmmm... In any event, such filtering on the part of IAP's will solve the problem, mostly. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "People propose, science studies, technology Tampa Bay, Florida conforms." -- Dr. Don Norman +1 813 790 7592
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