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RE: Spoofing an IP over the internet

Subject: RE: Spoofing an IP over the internet
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:31:19 -0800
A DoS attack is simply consuming all the bandwidth you have. 
So as long as a hacker sends enough packets you can't stop it. 
Using your approach you will probarly also consume 100% cpu 
time.

  One variety of DoS attack is resource starvation.  One resource
that is easy to consume remotely is bandwidth.

  Not all DoS attacks consume significant bandwidth.  In fact, 
consuming CPU time is another popular form of resource-starvation
DoS attack.  On the other hand, causing a server to endlessly 
reboot, over and over, makes its services unavailable while not
significantly consuming any resources at all.

David Gillett


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