On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Michal Zalewski wrote: > Try the same via loopback device - should not work. I believe this is not > Linux kernel UDP handling problem. It might be, as suggested, but > something between hardware and software, instead (like "IRQ congestion"), > and probably should work for everything - TCP, ICMP? Of course I can be > wrong - all I say is that I was not able to reproduce this behavior in my > test network, maybe because it is 10 Mbit, and can't see any special > reason why UDP attack should be more successful than any other... Confirmed. Of course, this could be a wide variety of other things, maybe even the NIC driver. Oh well.. Cade Cairns SecurityFocus http://www.securityfocus.com/
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