1/5 i heard one of the most amusing stories ever from my cousin the
other night, he was getting pissed off by a norwegian guy who kept
talking bullshit to him etc, and changing nicks and hostnames etc
just to continue doing so, he did a ping -f host & on him and
forgot he had to have root privs to turn the damn ping off.... he
did that from a 155 mbit line... brought down all of vestfold in
norway, thats 3 million users without connectivity for hal
\_ It's that easy to bring down a net?
\_ you idea of amusing differs greatly from mine
\_ your idea of amusing differs greatly from mine
\_ And the Rock with the people's penis!
--- You have to have root privileges to _start_ ping -f.
-f Flood ping. Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one
hundred times per second, whichever is more. For every
ECHO_REQUEST sent a period ``.'' is printed, while for every
ECHO_REPLY received a backspace is printed. This provides a
rapid display of how many packets are being dropped. Only the
super-user may use this option. This can be very hard on a net-
work and should be used with caution.
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