RE: Help Needed

["dave kleiman" <dave () isecureu com>]

Yes you are correct. MSFT ping through W2K3 is limited to 65,527.

But the ping tools here should do the trick
http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm



 
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Dave Kleiman, CISSP, MCSE, CISM, CIFI 
www.SecurityBreachResponse.com

"If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that Acme crap, why didn't he
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John Kingston wrote:
> So:
> ping -l 65000 IPADDRESS will ping that IPADDRESS with 65000 bytes of 
> data.

not always... there mostly are limitations in clients that limit icmp 
packets to 16 bits (65535)... but there are other implementations of 
ping which allow bigger packets, suitable for a ping of death...

(please, i'm new here... correct me if i'm wrong or do something wrong)

greetings

-- 
harry
aka Rik Bobbaers



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