RE: Help Needed

["Mike" <mike () superiorholidayadventures ca>]

root@firewall:~# ping -s 65536 192.168.0.112
ping: packet size too large.

root@firewall:~# ping -s 65500 192.168.0.112
ping: packet size too large.

Is there a modified ping?

Mike.

PS>  Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

H:\>ping -l 65500 192.168.0.112

Pinging 192.168.0.112 with 65500 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.112: bytes=65500 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.112: bytes=65500 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.112: bytes=65500 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.112: bytes=65500 time=1ms TTL=128

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Byron Sonne [mailto:blsonne () rogers com]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:34 PM
> To: Junaid; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Help Needed
>
> > Can somebody tell a the name of a tool that can be used to send ICMP
> packet
> > of size > 64K on windows. i have to crash a machine using ping of
death
> as
> > my first assignment in Pen-Testing class. i am unable to do this
using
> the
> > biult in ping utilities in windows and linux. i could not find any
tool
> on
> > the internet as well.
>
> You didn't look very hard then... that is, if you really are 'in
> Pen-Testing class' my friend ;)
>
> Drop to a shell on *nix and type 'man ping'. I'm running SuSE 8.2 and
I
> found this option, which is also present in the ping on my OpenBSD
box:
>       -s packetsize
>       Specifies  the number of data bytes to be sent.  The default is
>       56, which translates into 64 ICMP data bytes when combined with
>       the 8 bytes of ICMP header data.
>
> You'll probably have issues if you aren't root.
>
> I've seen other stuff available for windows but that was some time ago
> and I don't remember much. You're at a serious, serious disadvantage
if
> you want to do pen testing or serious security work and you're only
> going to use windows.
>
> Some places to look for stuff:
> http://www.packetstormsecurity.org
> http://www.insecure.org/tools.html
>
> Quite honestly, you could probably lurk and use nothing but the
> www.packetstormsecurity.org site and get all you need off there. It's
> one of the best resources period.
>
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>
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