Re: Nifty DoS in Foundry networks gear.

From: Valentin Beck (vbat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 06 1999 - 15:39:56 PDT

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    On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 07:53:47PM -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote:
    > 	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
    
    I tried it... and I reproduced the problem as you say.
    
    telnet@something>sh ver
     SW: Version 05.0.03T12 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
         Compiled on Jun 29 1999 at 10:56:44 labeled as SLB05003
     HW: ServerIron Switch, serial number 02bb34
     240 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
    [bla bla bla]
    Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00)
    The system uptime is 1 days 8 hours 41 minutes 6 seconds
    
    System was running normally while i was nmapping, and crashed a few minutes
    later...
    
    > 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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