Unless Im mistaken (entirely possible), an IP enabled phone has 2 distinct and separate "stacks", the IP stack and the "phone" stack.
As I said, in a NAT'd scenario the IP stack will never see an unsolicited request and hence not respond to it. The phone side of course will ring when called. Duh. GPRS <> VoIP (yet) Jm > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:26 AM > To: Mansey, Jon > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DDOS attacks and Large ISPs doing NAT? > > > On Thu, 02 May 2002 11:06:33 PDT, "Mansey, Jon" said: > > > The DDOS discussion is specifically referring to a "live" syn or > > syn/ack attack from hosts that respond to connection > requests. A NAT'd > > cell phone wont, cant ever, respond to an unsolicited connection > > request. > > *RING*!! *RING*!! Oh, I'm sorry, that was the clue phone > ringing - it couldn't be your phone, since it wouldn't answer > an unsolicited connection request.... > > You were saying? > > (To fill in the blanks - get a trojan loaded into the > cellphone/PDA combo, and then send it a page telling it > who/what to attack). > > -- > Valdis Kletnieks > Computer Systems Senior Engineer > Virginia Tech > >
