Re: Ok to let all ICMP traffic through firewall?
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Re: Ok to let all ICMP traffic through firewall?

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 08:50:56 CEST



In comp.security.misc E. <bellyup@the.bar> wrote:


> > or PING of Death?


> My (hazy) memory seems to recall that the POD only affected the stack on 


> certain Win95 clients.



This is wrong: http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html



Yours,


VB.



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Received on Sat Oct 15 04:35:38 2005