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Message-Id: <200608160039.k7G0dp2S003683@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:39:51 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: "Adriel T. Desautels" <simon@...soft.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Re: ICMP Destination Unreachable Port
	Unreachable

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:23:30 EDT, "Adriel T. Desautels" said:
> starting to think that, there's an awful lot of traffic tho.
> 
> Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> > Backscatter reply to a spoofed packet source address?

You think *you* got a lot of traffic, think about the site that sent you the
ICMP - if you're seeing backscatter, it's probably being *flooded* (probably on
the order of 200K packets per second or even higher). 

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