Re: Borderware Ping Server

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () nfr com>]

> Seems to be quite unique, is it a proxy server for
> ICMP echo request?

I believe that what it did was set a bpf filter for icmp packets, which it
then proxied to the outside world and re-injected on the internal network.
Kind of an interesting concept; I wonder if it would have adequately protected
against a ping of death attack...

mjr.
---
Marcus J. Ranum          Chief Technology Officer, NFR Security, Inc.
Work:                           http://www.nfr.com
Personal:                      http://www.ranum.com

_______________________________________________
firewall-wizards mailing list
firewall-wizards () nfr com
http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards