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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:53:18 -0600 (CST)
From:      Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Follow Up to NT DoS w/stream
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001220051000.5546-100000@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000121234159.0198a100@localhost>

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I will look at this with some network analysis hardware
Monday.  My son has a hockey tournament this week end, so
all the fun and games gives way to real life fun and games.
:-)

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Brett Glass wrote:

>  At 11:42 PM 1/21/2000 , Gene Harris wrote:
>  
>  >I then played around, using the FreeBSD box to launch an
>  >attack with the command ./stream 10.255.255.255 0 0 10000.
>  >Oh WOW!  The network came to a screaching halt.  An old
>  >laptop 100 MHz Pentium laptop stopped responding, and a much
>  >newer Windows 98 machine slowed noticably.  The collision
>  >light went from an occasional blink to pegged on the
>  >network hub. The NT machine took forever to read from the CD
>  >ROM on the Win98 machine.  The linux box stopped responding
>  >altogether.  No machine crashed.  I ran the attack for 30
>  >minutes.  As soon as the attack was terminated, all boxes
>  >returned to normal activity.
>  
>  Sounds like the RSTs were being amplified into an ICMP storm.
>  
>  --Brett
>  
>  



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