Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:32:40 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> To: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) Cc: mike@synwork.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this Ping of Death for real? Message-ID: <199612071832.KAA12385@superior.truenorth.org> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961207101846.dubois@night.primate.wisc.edu> from Paul DuBois at "Dec 7, 96 10:18:46 am"
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>The Ping o' Death is real, although not all systems are affected by it. >HP-UX 9 is susceptible, for instance. FreeBSD may not be. Perhaps >someone more knowledgable will comment. > >The Ping o' Death is different than the SYN attack. > HP-UX 10.01 and 10.10 are also susceptible to the Ping o' Death. There is a patch available from HP which will fix this. I believe that 10.20 has this problem fixed on the distribution media so no need for a patch. Josef "Enjoying the coffee at HP, Cupertino" Grosch -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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