Attack of the icmp pinging morons.........

[Brian Kelsay]

Hanasaki JiJi wrote:

> Anyone else getting pinged DOS from
>     "ICMP PING CyberKit 2.2 Windows"
> This is the report from Snort.  There were over 12,000 of them in the 
> last 24hours.  This number has been increasing over the last week.  Most 
> of the offending IP's seem to be from RR accounts.  Examples below:

I am getting several ICMP pings per second, but IPCOP is holding up. 
Way to go IPCOP!!  If I get too many then SNORT gives up for a while and 
doesn't log all the attempts.  The traffic light on my Cable Modem has 
been solid for a couple of weeks now, but I still am able to get mail 
and surf.  Not bad for a P-166.  I had something like 1200 instances in 
my logs for the CyberKit for about 3-4 hours.  All were Comcast and 
SWBell customers, even some dialup swbell IPs.

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