Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | | Subject | Re: bug causes tcp/ip stack corruption | | Date | 18 Dec 1998 18:10:40 +0100 |
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In article <cistron.19981218104111.W6107@uni-koblenz.de>, <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:56:06PM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > >> OK -- it's not sending a '+++' out the wire (which I've seen before >> with our customers here). > >On all modem I know the ``+++'' string has to be preceeded and followed by >a second pause; the exact length is configurable.
You don't know a lot of modems then .. the <pause>+++<pause> is copyrighted by Hayes, so a lot of cheap modems don't implement the pause.
See the BugTraQ archives for "Old school DOS attack". A whole thread about this came up one or 2 months ago.
Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
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