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Does anyone have any ideas from where its coming from???? We have had no luck with this at all???? On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > 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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