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Re: RARP attack?
From: avalon () coombs anu edu au (Darren Reed)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 22:56:20 +1000
In some mail from Pete Ashdown, sie said: [...]
The only question I have for the list is why someone would do this? They hit some of our Suns, but not all of them, and none of our routers or terminal servers were affected. I believe it wasn't a spoofing attack since the MAC addresses were bogus and didn't resolve to anything. All I can think is that someone just wanted to bring us down, and nothing else.
...like a good way to keep a box quiet if you want to use its IP address as part of IP spoofing, rather than block up sockets using bogus SYN packets ? darren
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- RARP attack? Pete Ashdown (Jun 24)
- Re: RARP attack? Adam Morrison (Jun 25)
- Re: RARP attack? Darren Reed (Jun 25)
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- Re: RARP attack? Pete Ashdown (Jun 25)