Ping of Death

[BigTimeNovice]

I am using a D-Link 614+ 802.11b wireless router and noticed in my router status log Ping of Death about 80 times. Here is an example of what it reports:

Time Message Source Destination Note

Dec/03/2003 15:51:32 Ping of Death Detect 192.168.0.101:33372 66.167.187.92:52229 Packet Dropped


Is there anything I can do to prevent/avoid this? Or should I not do anything. This has only started about a week ago for my 6 month old wireless connection.

[fink]

Here's some info on it. It's a very old way of trying to crash an operating system.. from around 1997 or so. Most systems are now oblivious to its effects.

http://www.iss.net/security_center/a...12/default.htm

[BigTimeNovice]

So is there anything i can do to stop this?

[fink]

Not a lot. What I do is set my firewall to block all incoming ICMP (pings) and then just ignore them. You could look up the ISP of the idiot that's sending them and send them a detailed email with firewall logs but it may be a spoofed (fake) address.

http://www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=66.167.187.92



Ultimately if it's not creating any problem for you it's probably not worth getting stressed about. One thing NOT to do is to try and retaliate. That could escalate their attack to something that may shut you down or slow your connection.