Re: Here is a way to crash Solaris using ping!

In article <5q0k3d$i4q$1_at_charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Rob Funk <rfunk_at_peri.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>In article <33BC8536.2772549A_at_dgii.com>,
>Rick Richardson <rick_at_dgii.com> wrote:
>>> Have you heard of the SSPING bug? Forge a fragmented ping packet of
>>> larger than 63336 bytes and bye bye remote host. Apparantly crashes Win95,
>>> Win NT, MacOS and Some Unix's.
>>
>>I tried this from my 2.0.28 linux to kill my sons W95 box. It
>>didn't kill his box, but my linux box went "dumb" after that.
>>Still operational, but my linux box couldn't see packets on the
>>network anymore. I really don't have the inclination to try this
>>again.
>
>I believe this was fixed in Linux 2.0.30.

Have a look for 'winnuke' to selectively kill M$ systems.

Joerg

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