Erich, you can stop emailing me now!

[Tadracket]

I may just accidentally ping the other IP in the header tonight with an extremely large packet for infinite. My luck, they are dumping into a bit bucket and my attack will be useless.

huh?

It is a type of 'denial of service attack' that is called ping flooding. Ping works with computers just like radars. You send out a packet and if you get a reply, someone is home. The ping command send I think 64 bytes of information (packet) to another computer in hope to get a response to verify connectivity. It will repeat this 4 times. You can modify the command to raise the packet size increasing the bandwidth consumed. Then set it to run continuously. The goal it to create so much traffic and request so much information from the other machine, that it locks up or shuts down the system.

Unfortunately, most firewalls have the ability to filter these types of attacks. They ignore ping request making this attack all but futile. You are still affecting their download speeds but the goal is to crash their upload so the site can't be viewed or the spammer can't send out information to spam.

[Halgar]

Unfortunately, most firewalls have the ability to filter these types of attacks. They ignore ping request making this attack all but futile. You are still affecting their download speeds but the goal is to crash their upload so the site can't be viewed or the spammer can't send out information to spam.

So how do you get around the firewall, hope they're using Microsoft?

[Tadracket]

Unfortunately, most firewalls have the ability to filter these types of attacks. They ignore ping request making this attack all but futile. You are still affecting their download speeds but the goal is to crash their upload so the site can't be viewed or the spammer can't send out information to spam.

So how do you get around the firewall, hope they're using Microsoft?

Actually that is one of the few decent programs Microsoft included in XP.
I hear Vista is much better at security but what good is it if everything else fails to work

[Halgar]

All I've ever heard about MicroSux is that everything past W2K has security holes you can drive a fleet of Mack Trucks through, not to say the W2K is particularly secure, just that it's the best of the lot.

Sis keeps saying that we're going to Linux and open source, but she's just not had the time to learn the new systems and find work arounds to what we need and use that only works on Windows.

[Tadracket]

Novell is not a bad operating system for servers and networks. That is what the state of NC uses as a majority. But Novell bought Susie Linux I think it was. And I head we may be totally redoing the network here in the next 5 years. Looks like I better brush up on my command line and open source.