fred >>> expert 11/06/00 23:07 >>> fred >>> expert 11/06/00 21:39 >>> fred >>> expert 11/06/00 19:32 >>> It is possible to crash, reboot or otherwise kill a large number of systems by sending a ping of a certain size from a remote machine. An IP datagram of 65536 bytes is illegal, but possible to create owing to the way the packet is fragmented (broken into chunks for transmission). When the fragments are reassembled at the other end into a complete packet, it overflows the buffer on some systems, causing problems Earlier versions of ping had this problem..but now I guess this is no longer an issue..there is a limit to tme maximum size of bytes that can be pinged Cheers Aravind S faisal wrote: > Hey anyone know about ping of death ? what does it do ? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip round the sun
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