15 Jul
2011
15 Jul
'11
2:13 a.m.
On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> wrote: Anyone on a layer-2 network can do something interesting like flood all f's and kill the lan. Trying to keep the majority of thoughts here for layer-3 originated attacks, even if the target is a layer2 item. - Jared
In most cases if you have a DoS attack coming from the same Layer-2 network that a router is attached to, it would mean there was already a serious security incident that occured to give the attacker that special point to attack from.
That's one possibility. The other likely possibility is that you are a University. Owen