Re: UDP packet handling weird behaviour of various operating systems

[Cade Cairns]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Michal Zalewski wrote:

> Try the same via loopback device - should not work. I believe this is not
> Linux kernel UDP handling problem. It might be, as suggested, but
> something between hardware and software, instead (like "IRQ congestion"),
> and probably should work for everything - TCP, ICMP? Of course I can be
> wrong - all I say is that I was not able to reproduce this behavior in my
> test network, maybe because it is 10 Mbit, and can't see any special
> reason why UDP attack should be more successful than any other...

Confirmed.  Of course, this could be a wide variety of other things, maybe
even the NIC driver.  Oh well..

Cade Cairns
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