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Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks

  • From: Netstat Webmaster
  • Date: Wed Jul 30 16:16:00 1997 
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> What he's saying is that someone is mounting broadcast ping flooding
> attacks with forged source addresses which make them appear to be
> coming from MAE-East, among other places.

mmmm... no.  The forged source address is that of the victim.  The listed 
broadcast addresses are the destinations of the packets with the forged 
address of the victim.  The broadcast addresses are never forged.

> Cheers,
> -- jra

Regards,
Tripp

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