[38783] in Hotline Meeting
Re: ping flooding from 18.74.0.79
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oded Comay)
Wed Jul 2 11:53:26 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:53:05 +0300 (IDT)
From: Oded Comay <comay@post.tau.ac.il>
To: Ron Hoffmann <hoffmann@MIT.EDU>
Cc: network@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199707021423.KAA04804@Marthas-Vineyard.NE.MediaOne.NET>
Just a minor correction: It was not ping, but rather ~4500 bytes UDP
packets broken into 3 fragments each. Also, we keep logs of such traffic,
so if you need data to retrace the event, we might be able to help.
Bye,
Oded.
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Ron Hoffmann wrote:
>Oded, thanks for your note to hotline@mit.edu regarding
>the ping flooding which took place yesterday. We actually
>monitored part of this going on - we were seeing over 8Mb/s
>through our ethernet interface!
>
>We will be talking with the individual whoappeared to be
>logged in to the workstation.
>
>Thanks for confirming the problem.
>
>-Ron Hoffmann
>MIT Network Operations
>
