North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
"Jay R. Ashworth" <[email protected]> writes: > Ought IP stack implementations not to refuse to reply to ECHO_REQUEST > packets with destination address which are broadcast addresses? Apparently some management packages search out hosts using broadcast pings. Not the best decision IMO. This was discussed a couple of days ago on bugtraq and I posted a Linux patch to cause it not to answer broadcast pings. *** How do you configure your router for that? no ip directed-broadcast. -- Shields, CrossLink.
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