Speaking of wireless

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:14:27 EDT
"Hewitt Tech" said:

>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.

I thought it was the other way around?  If you sent that POD *to* a 
Windows system it would fall over.  I don't remember any UNIX 
versions being vulnerable to it, though, my memory isn't ECC :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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