Hmmm, I thought a smurf attack was merely an attack this is designed to
attack from inside your network, ie someone somehow gets access to a
insecure w/sation on your network, infects that, then attacks the primary
target through that machine, working on the principle that you protect your
machine from the outside world but not your local w/sations & servers.
Please correct me here
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From: Kieran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Possible hack attempt ?
> 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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