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RE: Is this somme kind of Smurf attack ?

Subject: RE: Is this somme kind of Smurf attack ?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:22:30 +0000

If the adress 255.255.255.255 would be sent on a node on the ISP WAN, it would be stopped right there (try to tracert 255.255.255.255 from any computer on any network and ou will see the result - the first node to get it will keep it and/or send you an error message), so i think that if the idea was to smurf using ICMP the SRC adress in the stack, it would simply not work because it would be stoped on the first node it would hit.

My personnal guess would be that tis is due to some network transmission of wich the ISP is the source... still i have to admit i have no clue right now what kind  of activity could generate such activity from the ISP...

I might be wrong... just guessing here!

Marc

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