Re: 2.0.7 survived "big ping" attack
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:43:42 +0000 (GMT)
> 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.....
Basically your box didnt have enough ram free at the time to build the
packet and crash ;)