[linux-support] Large ICMP Requests

[albert at ccs.neu.edu (Albert Cahalan)]

>>> Speaking of which, has anyone tried this against W95/WNT?
>>> <evil laugh>
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Tighe Kuykendall wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Point your web browser to http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried sending a a large ICMP request (65510) from my Slackware 3.1 
>>>> machine and I got a message about the packet length being to long.  I 
>>>> spun around to my NT machine and sent the same size ICMP request to my 
>>>> *new* Slackware 3.1 machine and it dumped before I could get the chair 
>>>> back around!  Applying the patch mentioned in the above URL might not 
>>>> be a bad idea.
>>
>>I tried it from one NT 3.51 to another NT 3.51 (both at SP5) and 
>>nothing happened.  :(

Send a few packets from NT (!) to crash the TCP/IP stack.
Microsoft got the bug backwards.

You can crash it too, but the machine must be swapping when you
ping it.