Re: Pingflood attack against Windows98

From: Mark A. Heilpern (heilpernat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 18 1999 - 10:32:00 PST

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    At 03:17 AM 2/17/99 -0300, you wrote:
    >rewt wrote:
    >>
    >> Try pinging the windows box with large amounts of icmp...I left 5
    >> screened pings, each set to 65000 size...Windows will freeze shortly
    >> after its loaded. You might also try to ping with -f.
    >>
    >
    >Hey...
    >	I made what you suggested, and it's true... But in my case the
    >results were a little worse than yours...
    >	Windows 98 *REBOOTED* after a ping -f 65000... and wasn't need
    >to make several screen boxes... With only one ping -f 65000 the system
    >rebooted.
    
    I issued "ping -f -s 65000 my-win98-address" and after a single return, win98
    locked up cold. I was ssh'd from win98 to linux to issue the ping, so I might
    have had more returns than timing allowed to be displayed before I locked
    up.
    



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