[4254] in linux-net channel archive
Re: SYN floods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Aug 31 13:09:40 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: amb@xara.net (Alex.Bligh)
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:00:07 +0100 (BST)
Cc: mill0440@gold.tc.umn.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608311450.PAA27740@diamond.xara.net> from "Alex.Bligh" at Aug 31, 96 03:50:29 pm
> AFAIK some hosts have ICMP Echo filtered out upstream in order
> to try and escape flood ping attacks.
Also many firewalls don't allow ICMP echo through as people do annoying things
like tunneling IP inside the data part of an ICMP echo frame.
Alan
