Linux still vulnerable to DoS attacks through ppp link

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:48:51 -0500 (EST)

About a few minutes ago whilst I was on IRC, some braindead script kiddie
managed to $$$$ up my ppp connect such that I was left hanging online, no
data coming in, no data coming out through the ppp link. Repeated pings to
other sites did not return anything. I had to do a ppp-off and ppp-on to
restore the link.

Is there any methods or ways I can set a watch and log whatever is
happening so I can post a more detailed report to get it fixed?

What's annoying is that I have nothing in the logs to indicate what
happened.

Cheers,
Alex

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