Smurfing
William Allen Simpson
wsimpson at greendragon.com
Sat Feb 14 02:13:35 UTC 1998
Wow, I was glad to see that all these wonderful folks are reading the
router requirements (RFC-1812, June 1995). Good, good.
What I'd like to understand is how smurf attacks can work, even with
directed broadcast on? Isn't there a requirement (RFC-1122) from ages
past (October 1989) that ICMP not respond to broadcast or multicast
[page 38 et seq]?
What pressure is being put on host vendors?
Which host vendors are the problem?
WSimpson at UMich.edu
Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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