[9669] in bugtraq
Re: Pingflood attack against Windows98
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabio Bastiglia Oliva)
Fri Feb 19 16:53:43 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:44:24 -0300
Reply-To: Fabio Bastiglia Oliva <fboliva@SAFENETWORKS.COM>
From: Fabio Bastiglia Oliva <fboliva@SAFENETWORKS.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Hello all,
As I said before, forgive me, because my english is not so good!
I'll make a "Multi-reply" in this email... It's easier ;)
Thanks for all the replies!
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James <pyro@pyro.za.net> wrote:
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> This on a LAN or Internet or both?
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> I made this test in my LAN.
-LAN Speed: 10Mbits.
-NICs (Network Interface Card): 3Com905btx, Genius, Encore & Realtek.
-Hubs: 3Com Super Stack II.
-Windows98 Versions: 4.10.1998 (Portuguese and English versions)
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Laurent LEVIER <llevier@argosnet.com> wrote:
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> I tried with the French version of Windows 98.
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> when I run ping -l 65000 -f IPaddr.
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> ping refuses. Of course ping -f 65000 is not accepted too.
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> Strange the ping command changes between US & FR version.
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Sorry, I made a mistake when sent the email to Bugtraq. The
correct command (From Linux Slackware 3.6 Kernel 2.0.36) line is:
ping -f -s 65000 IPaddr
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Quantum <fusion77@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> I just tried it & had no success at my Win98 dos prompt,
>
Try from a linux... I got these results flooding from a
Linux Slackware 3.6 Kernel 2.0.36...
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Tom Van Riper <tomv@dreamscape.com>
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> yeah no kidding, the world has known a dialup connection weither it be
> windows or a unix type operating system, that a small amount of icmp
> packets will kill the connection for years, thats old stuff.
> try synfluding on ports 0-65535 for some real fun ;)
Hehe... But a synflood just made the LAN Communication slower,
and didn't affected Windows 98 than pingflood affected!
Tom Van Riper
Dreamscape Online
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Best Regards
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Fabio Bastiglia Oliva - Diretor
fboliva@safenetworks.com
Safe Networks Informatica LTDA.
http://www.safenetworks.com
