Re: Nifty DoS in Foundry networks gear.

From: Jan B. Koum (jkbat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 19:53:47 PDT

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    	It seem I am not able to re-produce the problem any more. So...
    sorry and never mind. I'll go sit in the corner now.
    
    -- Yan
    
    On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:58:43PM -0700, "Jan B. Koum " <jkb> wrote:
    >
    > 	Running tcp nmap scan against Foundry network gear make it go boom.
    > What makes it more sad is that Foundry is in the networking business -- they
    > route packets. They don't make toasters which get it's tcp/ip stack written by
    > a recent CS grad. Anyway, the version I have which reboots after simple
    > "nmap <host>" is:
    >
    > telnetat_private#sh ver
    >  SW: Version 05.0.94T13 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
    >      Compiled on Jun  8 1999 at 15:46:09 labeled as N8R05094
    >  HW: NetIron Gigabit Switching Router, serial number 01a5a4
    >  200 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
    >   16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
    >    2 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX
    > [.. snip ..]
    >
    > Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00)
    > The system uptime is 1 minutes 47 seconds
    >
    >
    > 	This is NetIron series -- not sure about other hardware...
    >
    > 	I notified Foundry two weeks ago -- but they do not seem to be able
    > to reproduce the problem themself (I also wasn't able to crash a foundry on
    > our LAN running  05.0.02T13  version of their software).
    >
    >
    > -- Yan
    



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