Re: Debugging a Portmaster

Brian Elfert (brian@citilink.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:34:45 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Robert Hiltibidal wrote:

> After reading a few posts we tried a few DoS attacks on our pm2e's running
> ComOs 3.3.3
>
> The results were quite impressive...
>
> Ping o Death attempts...Totally ignored packets greater than 65k

Others have reported that pinging with large packets (somewhat smaller
than 64K) has resulted in the Portmaster eventually exhausting all nbufs
and refusing to respond. The real problem is, after the attack, the
Portmaster doesn't come back to life in any sort of way.

Brian