2.0.7 survived "big ping" attack

Ulrich Windl (ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:54:21 +0100


I just wanted to report that Linux 2.0.7 survived the "big ping"
attack and is now up for 110 days.

I only had this
Oct 30 17:00:46 pc1542 kernel: eth0: bogus packet: status=0x20 nxpg=0x22 size=70
Oct 30 17:01:09 pc1542 kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Oct 30 17:01:47 pc1542 kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Oct 30 17:26:47 pc1542 kernel: eth0: bogus packet: status=0x20 nxpg=0xf size=70

and

Nov 4 07:47:12 pc1542 kernel: eth0: bogus packet: status=0x20 nxpg=0x3d size=70
Nov 4 07:47:19 pc1542 kernel: hda: timeout
Nov 4 07:52:12 pc1542 kernel: eth0: bogus packet: status=0x20 nxpg=0x3c size=70