[nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks

Wed Jul 30 20:56:51 UTC 1997

"Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> writes:
> Ought IP stack implementations not to refuse to reply to ECHO_REQUEST
> packets with destination address which are broadcast addresses?

Apparently some management packages search out hosts using broadcast
pings.  Not the best decision IMO.

This was discussed a couple of days ago on bugtraq and I posted a
Linux patch to cause it not to answer broadcast pings.

*** How do you configure your router for that?  no ip directed-broadcast.
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