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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: smurf's attack...
At 3:41 PM +0000 9/5/97, DAVE NORDLUND wrote: >> Likewise, not all broadcast adresses necessarily end with .255, >> so filtering .255 won't help anyway in the presence of something >> like a /25 with a X.X.X.127 broadcast. > >Agreed but it is not easy for a hacker to determine CIDR masks. It >is my impression that the only thing being sent is classfull broadcasts. Further, smaller networks (which, theoretically speaking at least, have fewer hosts) would be less useful in a smurf attack than larger ones, as there would be less of a multiplying effect. Jordyn |----------------------------------------------------------------| |Jordyn A. Buchanan mailto:[email protected] | |Bestweb Corporation http://www.bestweb.net | |Senior System Administrator +1.914.271.4500 | |----------------------------------------------------------------|
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