I have never heard of either of these things, and I don't think they are worthy of the NANOG list. I use WinGate at home, it is a Win95 gateway program, so you can have a little proxy at home for your other systems with only one dialup. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. I can't even imagine how it could generate spoofed packets in its legitimate form ( and I don't know of anyone who has modified it to do so). Go to Yahoo or win95.com and look up Wingate for more info. As far as I remember the reason SMURFING is called SMURFING is because the executable is called smurf! How would you "ban that code"? Ban a commercially viable product? The system.exe file? What is that? I have not heard of that either, I assume you are talking about win95 still. Maybe you mean system.dat (system registry)? The registry cannot be modified to spoof packets my friend. Surely what you are talking about is not true. Neither of these claims is worth techical merit. I'll now go back to my normal lurking. thanks andrew If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. - Voltaire On Sunday, June 21, 1998 5:03 AM, Henry Linneweh [SMTP:linneweh@concentric.net] wrote:
Now that we have gotten down to the nitty gritty here.
AGAIN the main mechanism for spoofing the smurf attacks is A program call wingate, ban that code and this problem will be cut more than in half.
Next there is a rumor that 8000 users have been infected with a tweaked system.exe file that makes that user a smurf amplifier unwittingly. These are things to watch for. I wish there was an easier way to break bad news.
Henry