[plug] bringing insert-OS-here to its knees

[Leon Brooks]

Christian wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:12:09AM +0800, Ryan wrote:
>> Its pretty much near impossible to bring linux to it's knees with a few 
>> malformed packets too.

> Same with Windows if you install all the patches...

NT/2000 maybe. For now.

Windows 9X, definitely not. At last count, it was still possible to send 
semi-random ICMP to a 9X box and sooner or later it dies. Admittedly, 
doing the same thing to a Linux box will eventually fill up /var/log but 
we're talking weeks/months here, not seconds.

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