[olug] mystifying cable modem problem

[Terry]

I remember writing a C compiler to rule the world...but that was just
a five minute ordeal.....
:)

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:49:33 -0400, unfie at cox.net <unfie at cox.net> wrote:
> > > >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
> 
> 
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