Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Attacks bringing my system down! | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:54:17 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> systems (during the attack itself) but don't kill them off. Our system > adminstrator > said that the Linux kernel is full of race conditions that cause it to > crash under these circumstances...
Oh dear one of those. I guess he's still grumpy that V7 no longer exists 8)
> Is there some way to reconfigure my system to make it less vulnerable?
The high bandwidth suggests that the attack is the icmp bug one and being done by someone clueless - try the students therefore. If so then it shouldnt be a problem unless you are well behind on the Red Hat updates/errata - the 2.2.5-22 kernel rpm fixed this.
Alan
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