From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 15: 7:51 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 15:07:50 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E431037B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.0.20] (spider.interactplus.com [216.180.46.102]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eBDN7lu15504 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:07:48 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: dkelly@hiwaay.net (Unverified) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:07:41 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: use of 1500 octet pings? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Watching reject messages on firewalls lately I've seen ICMP ECHO requests from web sites somebody is visiting, trying to packets of echo 1500 octets off us. What the heck are they trying to do? I can't guess an honest excuse for websites to ping visitors. And with such large packets. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message