[9086] in bugtraq
Re: Network Scan Vulnerability [SUMMARY]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Schmidt)
Sat Jan 16 15:16:28 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:07:32 -0800
Reply-To: Kevin Schmidt <kps@UCSB.EDU>
From: Kevin Schmidt <kps@UCSB.EDU>
X-To: dpk <dpk@EGR.MSU.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9901132000360.26204-100000@chavez>
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, dpk wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Tomasz Grabowski wrote:
[snip]
> And FORE PowerHub, 7-2.6.3.4-P10.
> It hangs for about 80 seconds when scanned with nmap -sS -O (nmap V2.00)
>
> I posted it to FORE about three weeks ago and never received an answer.
[snip]
> I passed this along to the Fore Engineers in my area. They took it
> seriously and replied back that Powerhub Software 5.0.1 (11193) fixes
> the problems relating to nmap, as well as cheops/queso scans.
I also filed a bug report and Fore was quite responsive. The 5.0.1 software
requires the PH7000 have a "packet accelerator", so it wasn't possible to
install it on non-accelerated hardware. To solve this Fore back-ported the
fixes and rolled a new release (2.6.4.3). Nice to see they're doing the
right thing and not leaving customers hanging just because they didn't
have a performance reason for installing an accelerator.
Kevin Schmidt kps@ucsb.edu
Campus Network Programmer (805) 893-7779
Engineering Computing Infrastructure (805) 893-8553 FAX
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
