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

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.

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