This is to clarify what is being put out by Cisco and what we are being told
by Cisco.
Two e-mails below is what Cisco is telling us and makes allot more sense
than what Cisco is telling Bugtraq. The last post to Bugtraq made mention
that the arp cache was filling up and allocating memory for bot
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To: 'Lancashire, Andrew'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Cisco and Nmap Dos
I just finished running CyberCop and nmap against a smaller range
(192.168.0.0) on a cat 5500 w/RSM and didn't notice any memory issues on the
RSM. Perhaps it is just the traffic generated by scanning t
I don't know if you've ever seen this before. We ran nmap with ICMP
discover and standard tcp scan. We ran the scan against the entire 10.0.0.0
network range. Although we were only looking for 2 ports, we found that the
RSM in our 5500 series (our default route) was running out of memory and
ha
