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Re: smurf's attack...
- From: Jordyn A. Buchanan
- Date: Fri Sep 05 17:17:13 1997
At 3:41 PM +0000 9/5/97, DAVE NORDLUND wrote:
>> Likewise, not all broadcast adresses necessarily end with .255,
>> so filtering .255 won't help anyway in the presence of something
>> like a /25 with a X.X.X.127 broadcast.
>
>Agreed but it is not easy for a hacker to determine CIDR masks. It
>is my impression that the only thing being sent is classfull broadcasts.
Further, smaller networks (which, theoretically speaking at least, have
fewer hosts) would be less useful in a smurf attack than larger ones, as
there would be less of a multiplying effect.
Jordyn
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