Speaking of wireless

[Hewitt Tech]

Also, don't forget the famous "ping of death" DOS issue. In that
vulnerability if you sent a ping with more than 65,510 data from a Windows
box, the machine receiving the ping request could fall over. That problem
affected quite a few of the UNIX implementation out there and I think it
could even take down an NT server if conditions were just right.

-Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: <pll at lanminds.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: Speaking of wireless


>
> In a message dated: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:49:20 EDT
> Michael O'Donnell said:
>
> >How does refusing to do ICMP make a box more secure?
>
> They can't finger-print your TCP/IP stack and determine what OS
> you're running.  This makes it difficult to then know what types of
> script-kiddies to run in order to root your box.
>
> See this SANS article about this very topic:
>
> http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/TCP_fingerprinting.htm
> --
>
> Seeya,
> Paul
> --
> It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing,
>    but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.
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