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smurf (stupid question)


From: Leon Rosenstein <l_rosenstein () MONTELSHOW COM>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:38:08 -0400

Ok before anyone even reads this post please note I am qualifying it as a
stupid question so flames will not be appreciated.  Also if this does not
make the list I will understand.  I was not really sure where to post it.

I was wondering with smurf amplification attacks what would happen if you
spoofed your IP as the broadcast address of another “smurfable” network.

Would this cause an ICMP storm / war??  Would the two networks continousally
just ping each other???

Anyway it was something I was wondering about.

Please feel free to respond in public or private.

Thx.



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