On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Phil Howard wrote:

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ICMP floods vs TCP floods. Aren't they both IP or have I missed something glaringly obvious.

ICMP floods have a greater impact because they can do broadcasts and cause a storm on a LAN whereas TCP or UDP will only be a simple attack.

Agreed. A flood is a flood of course of course.. expect when that flood is a horse.. oh wait. Wrong train of thought. Just think. I have a shell account on a KRaD 3li+3 shell box on a DS3. Some little lamer on a modem is annoying me. I go and flood their upstreams T1. Not as ugly as a smurf attack, I'll grant that one. But its still a flood. And when people start getting bigger links into their homes, it might become a problem. Adrian