[38914] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DDOS anecdotes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Jun 23 16:19:20 2001
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:16:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Tim Devries wrote:
> FYI beware of service pack 2. It sets the DF bit so packets cannot
> fragment. Particularily offensive if your server is on the other side of a
> tunnel (due to the overhead). The solution is to reduce the MTU on the box.
> Or use a different OS :)
I thought this was standard behaviour of Microsoft OSes since at least
Win95. I know NT does this as standard, so does Win95 and 98. Win2k does
this standard out of the box (at least last time I checked).
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
