Actually, I thought an easy DOS attack was to send a machine a bunch of
source quenches until it slowed down so much it was practically offline.
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Ahsan Ali wrote:
> ICMP source quench messages are sent when your host (or a process on your
> host to be precise) is sending data too fast for the network/remote end to
> handle. These messages tell your machine to slow down its tranmission to let
> the remote end cope with the traffic.
>
> You shouldn't filter them unless you're flooding someone intentionally... ;p
>
> -Ahsan Ali
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: ICMP: Source quench?
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> > Hi there,
> >
> > can you explain me what "source quench" means? ICMPLogD frequently
> notifies me
> > that my box received these packets from some peer host.
> >
> > Should I filter these packets at my firewall?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ralf
> >
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