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Can someone PINGing Really Screw Your Network

BertieBigBollox@gmail.com
30 Dec 2004 01:32:03 -0800

Read somewhere that if someone continually pings your network, the
server will eventually fall over.

Seems a bit hard to believe. Surely one computer pinging would make
very little impact even on a DSL connection ... Would be a bit
unfortunate if this were the case and someone got hold of your static
IP :-)

Also, what about UDP floods? Are these different? Surely firewalls etc
would stop this sort of thing from happening?

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