Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:58:49 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack |
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is there anything other than someone trying to crash my box that would > > trigger the printk I added? One of our servers just logged this: > > > > Oversized packet received from 205.229.51.6 > > There shouldn't be anything else creating packets over 64K long. They > are basically illegal frames.
I got the guy in a ytalk session, and he actually admitted he was testing to see if we were vulnerable. Stupid little s#!t. Sometimes I really enjoy using passwd -l.
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