Re: Nifty DoS in Foundry networks gear.

[jkb () BEST COM (Jan B. Koum)]

        It seem I am not able to re-produce the problem any more. So...
sorry and never mind. I'll go sit in the corner now.

-- Yan

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:58:43PM -0700, "Jan B. Koum " <jkb> wrote:
>       Running tcp nmap scan against Foundry network gear make it go boom.
> What makes it more sad is that Foundry is in the networking business -- they
> route packets. They don't make toasters which get it's tcp/ip stack written by
> a recent CS grad. Anyway, the version I have which reboots after simple
> "nmap <host>" is:
>
> > telnet () XXX mail#sh ver
>  SW: Version 05.0.94T13 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
>      Compiled on Jun  8 1999 at 15:46:09 labeled as N8R05094
>  HW: NetIron Gigabit Switching Router, serial number 01a5a4
>  200 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
>   16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
>    2 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX
> [.. snip ..]
>
> Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00)
> The system uptime is 1 minutes 47 seconds
>
>
>       This is NetIron series -- not sure about other hardware...
>
>       I notified Foundry two weeks ago -- but they do not seem to be able
> to reproduce the problem themself (I also wasn't able to crash a foundry on
> our LAN running  05.0.02T13  version of their software).
>
>
> -- Yan