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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Gandalf The White <gandalf@digital.net>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Fragmentation Attack
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 09:45:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040207094524.495e883d.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC4A7E2E.E256%gandalf@digital.net>

On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:36:14 -0600
Gandalf The White <gandalf@digital.net> wrote:

> If you want step by step instructions I can provide them.

What makes your DoS interesting is whether the attacker needs
a lot of bandwidth or not.  Ie. if he has to be sitting on your
gigabit subnet then the attack isn't interesting.  Whereas if he
can eat all of the remote systems cpu cycles just being behind a
cable modem, that's interesting.

Which is it?

Also have you done your cpu utilization tests on something a little
less ancient than a 450mhz system?  How fast was the network?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-07 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-07 17:36 Fragmentation Attack Gandalf The White
2004-02-07 17:45 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-02-07 18:00   ` Gandalf The White
2004-02-08 20:45     ` David S. Miller
2004-02-08 21:12       ` Gandalf The White
2004-02-08 21:18         ` David S. Miller
2004-02-12  2:20           ` Gandalf The White

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