Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.0.7 survived "big ping" attack | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:43:42 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I just wanted to report that Linux 2.0.7 survived the "big ping" > attack and is now up for 110 days. > > I only had this > Oct 30 17:00:46 pc1542 kernel: eth0: bogus packet: status=0x20 nxpg=0x22 size=70 > Oct 30 17:01:09 pc1542 kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... > Oct 30 17:01:47 pc1542 kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Basically your box didnt have enough ram free at the time to build the packet and crash ;)
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