Re: Smurf Amp Nets

[Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:16:38PM -0700, Vern Paxson wrote:
> > 0.0.0.0
> > 10.0.4.0
> > 127.0.0.0
> > 255.255.255.0
>
> These are pretty cool, I must say.  Exactly how does the smurf attacker
> route their echo requests to them?
>
>               Vern

They are straight forged packet flows.

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