that extension won't help for this specific attack since it is made to
filter only null entity packets and cache A2S_INFO requests.
the only solution is to use a firewall or modify that extension to include
this case

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:20 PM, DontWannaName! <[email protected]>wrote:

> Install this http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=114787
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Marek Sieradzki
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > Servers of my HL2 (Orange Box) mod receive these UDP packets:
> > FFFFFFFF71303030303030303030303030303000 (20 bytes long) with spoofed
> > source IP. Linux servers can easily firewall these but it's harder on
> > Windows. I also don't know if attacker can use a different packet data
> > to achieve the same result.
> > Result of the attack is server disappearing from Steam browser, ticks
> > run per second go down to ~1 and CPU use skyrockets. As far as I know
> > attacked server doesn't receive a lot of these packets. Something
> > around 100 per second.
> >
> > I'm sending it to hlds_linux because I'm not registered on hlds list. :)
> >
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