Hi all,
Isn't this what's generally called a smurf?, well used to be when it
worked on vulnerable systems.
If I remember rightly, a ping to x.y.z.0 or x.y.z.255 would generate a
ping to EVERY ip address from x.y.z.0 to x.y.z.255 from that local
machine.
Imagine the effect of sending 1000 echo requests to x.y.z.0 and x.y.z.255,
you'd have 1000*255*255 (65025000) ping requests sent by only sending 2000
echo requests :-).
I could be wrong however, but to me it looks like someone is testing to
see whether or not your system is vulnerable to this type of attack.
Anyone wanna correct me on this?
Cheers,
Kieran
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Del wrote:
> I'm also starting to see a lot more broadcast ping packets than I'm
> used to ... i.e. icmp echo request to address x.y.z.255
>
> Del
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