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Subject: Re: Sparse ICMP/ACK Scans to Broadcast Addresses
From: Granquist, Lamont (lamontICOPYRIGHT.COM)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 19:48:58 CDT


On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stephen P. Berry wrote:
> Over the past couple days, I've noticed an odd traffic pattern which
> I haven't observed previously. The pattern consists of two flavours
> of traffic:
>
> -An ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST
> -An ACK

That's an ACK ping, to detect machines that packet filter ICMP. NMAP is
one scanner that will do these kinds of scans. I'm not up-to-date on DoS
technology -- is there a DoS tool out there that does TCP smurfs?