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On 21 Oct 1996, Markus Gutschke wrote:

> Denial of service attack by sending huge ping packets:
> This bug existed in all prior kernel releases and has been fixed
> in release ...

I tested this with 1.2.13 (win95 pinging 1.2.13) today, and did not crash
the box. In fact there was no noticable effect. I think it was mentioned
that this bug was added in 2.0.x or 1.3.x.

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