[olug] mystifying cable modem problem

[unfie at cox.net]

> > >From what I hear, some switches "fail open" or revert to a hub like
> > mode if they
> > are overwhelmed (buffer overrun?) or otherwise compromised. If you
> > can make that
> > happen on the network in question, you can see pretty much everything.
> 
> This is true, although I think most of the major manufacturers of business
> grade equipment have eliminated this when they realized that crackers were
> exploiting the behavior.
> 
> Bill

I remember writing an exploit for this just so I could diagnose some networking stuff without slowing everything down to 10baseT.  What do they do now ? Just drop the packets rather than 'broadcast' ?  There's no clean way to get out of the situation...

-Will