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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICMP Attacks???????
Yes. It was interesting. My understanding is that what I am about to tell you is old news, but here: Attacker sends a packet with a source address of the victim, with a dest address to the broadcast of a (pick any) network. Every machine on the network will then respond with a ICMP reply to the 'source' (the victim). My understanding is that a 28.8 users could easily fill a T1 (or more) with this method. We have no proof, but someone did this to us from what appears to be a ISDN account from PSI, and filled 6 - 7 mb/s of our Ethernet genuity connection in doing so. It was *not* cool. On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Network Admin Account wrote: > > Has anyone been resently attacked by massive flood pings?????? We are > trying to locate any other ISP's or anyone else having the same problem. > >
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