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Re: smurf (stupid question)


From: Jacek Lipkowski <sq5bpf () ACID CH PW EDU PL>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:28:24 +0200

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:

Would the two networks continousally just ping each other???     Anyway it
[...]
But it could work with udp echo, or any other service which uses similar

or use ipx ping if you're on a local network (for the source see my
message on bugtraq - search for the subject 'ipx storm' ). for w98 m$
released fix number (something)-054, but it also works on netware
(although netware doesn't die like windoze did), and probably many other
ipx stacks that replied to ipx pings.

jacek


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