Re: udp packet storms
Perry E. Metzger (perry@imsi.com)
Tue, 01 Nov 1994 09:05:20 -0500
Steve Simmons says:
> This leads to a bug I've literally been afraid to test:
>
> How about forging a ping packet with source and destination
> address YOUR.NET.HERE.255? Should cause a brief but interesting
> storm, while doing only minimal loading on the forger.
The RFCs specify that you must never respond to an ICMP request with a
broadcast. However, this may work with UDP echo ports on hosts with
defective behavior of the sort we've just been noting.
Perry