Re: udp packet storms

Paul 'Shag' Walmsley (ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu)
Mon, 31 Oct 1994 22:39:39 -0600 (CST)

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On Tue, 1 Nov 1994, anthony baxter wrote:

> 
> Everything I can get my hands on here (Ultrix, SunOS, OSF/1, Irix 5, Solaris)
> has this bug. Whee.
> 
> 
> Besides, you get really funky results from ping:
> 3 packets transmitted, 52 packets received, -1633% packet loss

All of our Unix systems here respond to broadcast pings (IRIX, SunOS 4, 
NeXTStep 3.2) ... but I believe that's by design, not by accident.   

- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu>
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