(PM) (RADIUS) denial of service attacks & radius (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 02:28:49 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Paul Mras shaped the electrons to say...
>Could our radiusd be getting some sort of network noise, for lack of a
>better word, on that port? Or would this be a malicious attempt to bog
>down our radius server with bogus authentication requests? Or is there
>some other issue here that I have not considered?

Looks a lot like PPP traffic. It could be a busted client sending PPP
frames at the login: prompt.

-MZ

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