Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:37:13 +0200 (EEST) | From | "Krzysztof G. Baranowski" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ip_fragment.c and related, kernel 2.0.34 - Allows , teardrop/IP fragmentation logging. |
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, david wrote: > > teardrop/IP fragmentation logging patch > the reason why logging extra info on this has not been implemented before > is because just about all exploits use spoofed src addresses. that makes > logging the 'attacker' ips fairly useless to the admin and quite useful to > the attacker because you're adding to the attack by flooding your log > files. You can just turn IP firewalling on. New ipchains code will block and log the packets sent by teardrop.
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