Re: Pingflood attack against Windows98

[heilpern () MINDSPRING COM (Mark A. Heilpern)]

At 03:17 AM 2/17/99 -0300, you wrote:
> rewt wrote:
> > Try pinging the windows box with large amounts of icmp...I left 5
> > screened pings, each set to 65000 size...Windows will freeze shortly
> > after its loaded. You might also try to ping with -f.
>
> Hey...
>       I made what you suggested, and it's true... But in my case the
> results were a little worse than yours...
>       Windows 98 *REBOOTED* after a ping -f 65000... and wasn't need
> to make several screen boxes... With only one ping -f 65000 the system
> rebooted.

I issued "ping -f -s 65000 my-win98-address" and after a single return, win98
locked up cold. I was ssh'd from win98 to linux to issue the ping, so I might
have had more returns than timing allowed to be displayed before I locked
up.