Dos Attack type : Teardrop!!

I have a d-link rounter, di-704p, and it is recording in
its firewall log "Dos Attack type : Teardrop!!". Just
wondering what this is. Nothing is getting thru the
firewall, just curious what type of attack this is.

S
Sat Oct 04 06:49:27 CDT 2003

It's a very old attack against TCP/IP stack, using fragmented packets.
It's rarely seen these days, as Microsoft Windows stack was fixed back in
1997 and nobody's interested in anything else. There's a chance that the
router might have mistaken legitimate fragmentation with teardrop.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-


"Russell" <newsgroup@paperdragon.ca> wrote in message
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> I have a d-link rounter, di-704p, and it is recording in
> its firewall log "Dos Attack type : Teardrop!!". Just
> wondering what this is. Nothing is getting thru the
> firewall, just curious what type of attack this is.