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Re: SYN floods

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Titz)
Tue Sep 3 17:09:50 1996

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From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
Date: 	03 Sep 1996 11:40:32 +0200
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Sick things like this are only done if their firewall also filters UDP
where such stuff does belong ;-)

olaf
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