Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:58:49 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Is there anything other than someone trying to crash my box that would
> > trigger the printk I added? One of our servers just logged this:
> >
> > Oversized packet received from 205.229.51.6
>
> There shouldn't be anything else creating packets over 64K long. They
> are basically illegal frames.

I got the guy in a ytalk session, and he actually admitted he was testing
to see if we were vulnerable. Stupid little s#!t. Sometimes I really
enjoy using passwd -l.

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