Re: syn flooding attack and bandwidth consumation

["hackerwacker" <hackerwacker () cybermesa com>]

Correct. syn floods just open many connections which the attacking side
never completes. All these attacks try up resources, not bandwidth, but the
effect is the same. A DoS or DDoS.

----- Original Message -----
From: "SB CH" <chulmin2 () hotmail com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:58 AM
Subject: syn flooding attack and bandwidth consumation


> Hello, all.
>
> As you know, when I received smurf attack which is icmp based attack, the
> bandwidth is full.
> But when I receive syn flooding attack, the bandwidth is full or not?
> As my test, the syn and ayn+ack packet size is 0.
> So I think that the syn flooding attack has no relations with bandwith
> based attack? right?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
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