Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:13:39 -0800 From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to force remote reboot of 3.4-Release? Message-ID: <20000317161339.F56986@beastie.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200003170213.KAA26062@netrinsics.com>; from Michael Robinson on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:13:41AM %2B0800 References: <200003170213.KAA26062@netrinsics.com>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:13:41AM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > > Would a SYN flood do it? If so, does anyone know of a good SYN flood tool? > I would recommend against launching a SYN flood attack on your system. Depending on who you share a network segement with, you could annoy a whole lot of people with the traffic that this would generate. Also, it probably won't have the desired effect. SYN flood attacks are not designed to crash a system, they are used by vandals to deny service to a particular host or network. The remote power control devices that people have been recommending are much better solutions to this problem. Does your colo provider offer a port on a terminal server that you could use to connect to a serial console on your FreeBSD box? If so, there are serial console cards out there that might be ideal for your situation, although at a cost. Check out the following: http://www.realweasel.com/ http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/ http://www.enitek.com/j1/ (caviat emptor: I have no experience with any of these) -brian -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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