Re: Network Scan Vulnerability [SUMMARY]

[kps () UCSB EDU (Kevin Schmidt)]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, dpk wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Tomasz Grabowski wrote:
[snip]
>    And  FORE PowerHub, 7-2.6.3.4-P10.
>    It hangs for about 80 seconds when scanned with nmap -sS -O (nmap V2.00)
>
>    I posted it to FORE about three weeks ago and never received an answer.
[snip]
> I passed this along to the Fore Engineers in my area.  They took it
> seriously and replied back that Powerhub Software 5.0.1 (11193) fixes
> the problems relating to nmap, as well as cheops/queso scans.

I also filed a bug report and Fore was quite responsive.  The 5.0.1 software
requires the PH7000 have a "packet accelerator", so it wasn't possible to
install it on non-accelerated hardware.  To solve this Fore back-ported the
fixes and rolled a new release (2.6.4.3).  Nice to see they're doing the
right thing and not leaving customers hanging just because they didn't
have a performance reason for installing an accelerator.

Kevin Schmidt                                kps () ucsb edu
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