ICMP Attacks???????

Fri Aug 15 17:42:31 UTC 1997

Michael Dillon writes:
> >> Has anyone been resently attacked by massive flood pings??????  We are
> >> trying to locate any other ISP's or anyone else having the same problem.
> 
> >flooded by the replies.  I'd just go to a few of your machines and do a
> >netstat on them, then dump the data to a file and see if you can see where
> >all the ICMP packets are coming from.  When you find out, it's time to get
> 
> And just how do you identify the source of the ICMP packets when the source
> address is forged?

Trace it back, painfully, hop by hop by hop.

> I'm not sure what can be done to make this easier but I have a few ideas.

I have some too, but this isn't really the forum...

Perry