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On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 10:14:11AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Jared Mauch wrote: > > > One other thing, it would be interesting if someone started > > a smurf at a smurf amp. (I'm tired, but believe that can be > > done, but not going to think too much about it. The loop > > would be interesting, and require some fun intervention to fix). > > I think this is the way of the future when smurf amps get fixed. People > will put these kind of things on hacked machines, sending spoofed floods > to broadcast adresses locally. Since everybody seems to be going to > switched nets this can create substantial amount of data. > > I think the only way to solve this more permanently is to remove the > response of ICMP data to broadcast adresses in the OS. Is anyone > preassuring for this to happen? Is there a list of OS that actually does > respond to ICMP to broadcast adresses? Recent FreeBSD versions have an option to disable response to a broadcast ICMP. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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