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[Sean Butler <sebutler () us ibm com>]

John Fraizer wrote:
> The thing that makes it "interesting" is the fact that most implementations
> DO send an ICMP unreach back.  The ICMP Unreach traffic alone generated in
> the neighborhood of 1.7Mb before they routed the netblock in question to a
> loopback interface on the 7507.  The attacker was sending less that 300Kb
> of traffic and consuming 2Mb.


Any idea where that much amplification is coming from?  For smurf with an echo
request to
a broadcast, its easy to see why there is so much amplification.  But for a TCP
or UDP
packet to port 0, wouldn't just one port unreachable be sent back to the
(spoofed) source?
Or is it a broadcast TCP or UDP  packet to port 0 ???

Thanks,
Sean Butler, IBM Global Services