From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:43:02 -0800 (PST)
To: "Bruce M." <bkmarsh@feist.com>
Subject: Re: IP address
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Bruce M. wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 ichudov@algebra.com wrote:
> 
> > > >What is the risk of publishing your dynamic IP address to a web page while you are on line?  How vulnerable is someone just connected to the internet, w/o any server running? What attacks are feasable? --Internaut
> > > 
> > > Well, if you are running Win95 (all) or 3.1 (w/certain TCP/IP stacks) your
> > > machine can be locked up or rebooted at *any* time using just PING!
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't is Unix that is actually vulnerable?
> 
>     I have never been able to cause more than a mild performance 
> degredation by pinging a Windows 95 machine with large packets.  When 
> testing the idea I kept increasing the packet size until the machine no 
> longer responded, but the machine still had TCP/IP capabilities (in terms 
> of transmitting data and forming connections).  Ping flooding is another 
> matter though.  You probably could cause a larger performance drop.
> 

try sending big udp packets instead of big tcp packets; this kills windows
faster.

 --Deviant
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