Bugtraq: Re: udp packet storms

[perry () imsi com (Perry E. Metzger)]

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