Re: ping flooding as normal user

[Pavel Kankovsky <peak () ARGO TROJA MFF CUNI CZ>]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Bluefish wrote:

> I'm no expert on network coding in the unix environment (or any other
> environment for that sake ;) but I'm wondering how big this issue is. I
> mean, basicly the main problem is that bandwidth per user isn't limited
> (for a number of sites, being able to limit that for ordinary users might
> be interesting - not only to avoid abuse)

Exactly. I might modify ping beyond all recognition to make it unusable
to flooding but all that effort is wasted as long as any user can write
and run a program sending big UDP packets (instead of ICMP) as fast as
possible.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."