>On Thu, Nov 13, 1997 at 10:06:15PM -0800, G P R wrote:
>> Oh, by the way, NT/95 appear to have the bug also. Try sending 10 -
15 of
>> these fragment combos to an NT/95 machine.
> This bug doesn't fixed by Service Pack #3, but it seems like SP3 +
>"simply-tcp" patch fixes this bug (thanks for Serge Solopov, serj@portal.ru).
>It's funny - 'simply-tcp' was intended to fix another bug (see below).
It may be the previous icmp-fix (ssping) that fixes the problem. Oddly
enough, NT with no patches at all isn't vulnerable to this. I haven't
quite sorted out exactly where the problem starts and stops, but I do know
no patches and full patches aren't bothered by it.
David LeBlanc |Why would you want to have your desktop user,
dleblanc@mindspring.com |your mere mortals, messing around with a 32-bit
|minicomputer-class computing environment?
|Scott McNealy