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Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP.
From: hpj () one se (Henrik P Johnson)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:22:28 +0200
I was idly reading through Internetworking with TCP/IP yesterday when it hit me what might be a possible denial of service attack on IP stacks. What would happen if a host was bombarded with faked fragments of large IP packages. Would the stack allocate more and more memory trying to reconstruct the packages or do they operate with a fixed/max size limit on memory allocated for IP defragmentation? \\|// -(@ @)- ===oOO==(_)==OOo============================================================== Henrik P Johnson Tel: +46-(0)31-812091 Eklandagatan 41a GlobeCom Network GSM: +46-(0)70-5409924 41261 Göteborg IRC: [TC] FAX: +46-(0)31-208460 Sweden E-Mail: king () globecom net king () one se, hpj () etek chalmers se, hpj () tjh se... etc ============================================================================== Nice site: http://www.underscore.se/sj (Swedish)
Current thread:
- Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP. Henrik P Johnson (Oct 21)
- Re: Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP. Warner Losh (Oct 22)
- Re: Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP. Jon Lewis (Oct 22)
- Re: Suspicion denied Nathan Lawson (Oct 22)
- Re: Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP. Darren Reed (Oct 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP. J.R.Valverde (Oct 22)
- Re: Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP. Keith Bostic (Oct 22)