Re: [rtl] Flood Pings on underpowered processors

[eric <eek105@psu.edu>]

The script kiddies have any number of such tools available to them.  Do
a google search for 
hackerz, ping of death, syn flood, etc.  I only tell you this because if
you were a prospective script kiddie yourself, you would have signed
your name jOhN jEffErZ
eric


John Jeffers wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Has anyone developed a piece of test code to try and render unresponsive a
> networked device by creating flood pings / "all call" packets.  If so is
> the source code available / or what was done to test a network device
> against such a issue.
> 
> My information is a network with a NT server is especially likely to
> produce such packets and has caused some embedded devices to fail due to
> processor starvation by servicing non-stop packet interrupts.
> 
> Any opinions of this?  It has been indicated to me that companies have seen
> this before and this is a situation that needs to be tested for. (although
> this problem is bad networking form)
>