[Full-Disclosure] (AUSCERT AA-2004.02) AUSCERT Advisory - Denial of Service Vulnerability in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Devices (fwd)

madsaxon madsaxon at direcway.com
Thu May 13 20:04:38 BST 2004


At 11:20 AM 5/13/2004 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>Am I the only person around who's been in this business long enough to 
>remember
>how one jabbering transciever can take down an entire Ethernet thinwire or
>thickwire segment??

Heh. No, I remember data storms quite well.  Painfully well.  I also
remember the sniper bug in SMC cards, that randomly disconnected
nodes from the network.  A booger to diagnose and track.

m5x




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