Running tcp nmap scan against Foundry network gear make it go boom.
What makes it more sad is that Foundry is in the networking business -- they
route packets. They don't make toasters which get it's tcp/ip stack written by
a recent CS grad. Anyway, the version I have which reboots after simple
"nmap <host>" is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]#sh ver
SW: Version 05.0.94T13 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
Compiled on Jun 8 1999 at 15:46:09 labeled as N8R05094
HW: NetIron Gigabit Switching Router, serial number 01a5a4
200 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
2 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX
[.. snip ..]
Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00)
The system uptime is 1 minutes 47 seconds
This is NetIron series -- not sure about other hardware...
I notified Foundry two weeks ago -- but they do not seem to be able
to reproduce the problem themself (I also wasn't able to crash a foundry on
our LAN running 05.0.02T13 version of their software).
-- Yan