Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:17:58 -0700 (PDT) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: Flood ping |
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Anyone considered the fact that this could be a safety feature there to keep outside attackers from eating CPU time ? Fact is I prefer it this way, why bother putting in a check for localhost? I've seen some interesting spoofs to make it look like the packet came from localhost...
Gerhard
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Michael L. Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, George wrote: > > > > > Anyone tried flood pinging localhost lately? > > > > With Linux 2.1.122 SMP (2xPentium 133) I get: > > > > --- localhost ping statistics --- > > 38831 packets transmitted, 781 packets received, 97% packet loss > > round-trip min/avg/max = 0.6/103.7/331.4 ms > > ping -f on 122 UP (P150MMX) doesn't act sane either. > > --- localhost ping statistics --- > 150208 packets transmitted, 766 packets received, 99% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max = 1.4/190.3/373.7 ms <== -pg -g > > However... > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:3924 Metric:1 > RX packets:577188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:577188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 > > Strace and tcpdump (glance) look like all is groovy. > > -Mike > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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