PPP's escape character is '~', and any occurences of this character must be escaped. So, to double the effectiveness of a ping flood, pings can be filled with a tilde. DoS +----[ On Wed, Apr 28, at 11:34AM(+0200), Otel Florian-Daniel wrote: ]-------------- | Hello everybody, | | I'm trying to gather some data about link-layer protocol specific attacks | and/or security flaws that can be exploited, e.g. Ethernet is prone to | sniffing and MAC address spoofing. Most of the stuff I found so far | revolves around Eth. sniffing (how to use it, how to detect it, so | on and so forth). But what about other types of attacks and/or | link-layers (e.g. broadcast-storm based DoS attack? Are Token Ring, FDDI, | ISDN, ATM flawless ?) Does anybody have some info about this ? Is the | topic superfluous/too general ? | | Many thanks in advance for any reasonable comment and/or pointers, | | | Florian | | P.S: Maybe is worth stressing more that I'm looking for vendor and | protocol independent info and not specific implementation bugs. +----[ End Quote ]---------------------------
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