ons, 2002-04-24 kl. 15:19 skrev Tony Earnshaw:

> Gibson's argument was that ICMP echo requests on raw (Unix) sockets
> were not possible with Windows 98 and below, since raw sockets weren't
> implemented on these OSs. So Microsoft fudged ICMP requests with
> (either UDP or) TCP. In as much as you have to be root to use raw
> sockets (try a ping on, for example, a BSD machine without being
> root), introducing the > concept of raw sockets in XP constituted a
> security risk. There was an extremely long article about this about a
> year ago, but it's now disappeared.

No it hasn't:

http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm

Tony

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