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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:40:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Oliver R. Wang " <fwang2@cobblers.csc.ncsu.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   land attack - technical explaination?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124133519.12988E-100000@cobblers.csc.ncsu.edu>

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Hi there

What I know about "land" attack is that it send a TCP packet with source
address, source port, destination address, destination port set as the
same. My question is can someone explain to me why this will cause system
degradation or even crash? What's fix in FreeBSD? 

If there isn't a short answer, pointer of info is appreciated.


/oliver





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