On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: >> On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Fernando Gont <ferna...@gont.com.ar> wrote: >> Anyone on a layer-2 network can do something interesting like flood all f's >> and kill the lan. Trying to keep the majority of thoughts here for layer-3 >> originated attacks, even if the target is a layer2 item. >> - Jared > > In most cases if you have a DoS attack coming from the same Layer-2 > network that a router is attached to, > it would mean there was already a serious security incident that > occured to give the attacker that special point to attack from. > That's one possibility.
The other likely possibility is that you are a University. Owen