RE: Router/Switches and viruses
From: Wolfpaw - Dale Corse (admin-lists_at_wolfpaw.net)
Date: 05/05/05
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To: "'Seek Knowledge'" <aseeker03@yahoo.com>, <focus-ids@securityfocus.com> Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:25:15 -0600
Yeah.. High packet flow could kill it (depends on the switch).
Rate limit incoming packets per second.
D.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seek Knowledge [mailto:aseeker03@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:41 PM
> To: focus-ids@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Router/Switches and viruses
>
>
> Does anyone have any first-hand experience with a
> single infected desktop machine (or windows server for
> that matter) taking out a LAN switch? Would anyone
> have any stories from the trenches of an infected
> machine causing a directly connected router to stop functioning?
>
> If so, what could be done to prevent such an outage?
> What IDS/IPS strategy might one implement to prevent
> and or at least detect such an event?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ASeeker
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