Router gets hurt!

Tue Nov 24 06:01:39 UTC 1998

Discovered today that NT has the built in ability to drown your network
and stomp on the routers cpu. Seems if someone sets up 2 NT domain masters
or whatever that Netbios garbage is called, they attempt to "hold an
election." The election is comprised of slamming every machine it can find
and then every broadcast address it can think of with udp on port 137.

After a few minutes of it an RSP4 gets real tired and you start losing
packets as well as the switches all falling apart after trying to forward
the zillion mbits/sec of useless data.

Anyone else seen anything like this?

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Jason Weisberger
Chief Technology Officer
SoftAware, Inc. 310/305-0275