DSL modems used for pen-testing

From: Toby Barrick <tbarrick(at)covad.net>
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 15:13:01 EDT

Has anyone else run into the problem of "swamping" the connection tables in their DSL modems (on the attack side and the target side)? I currently have a Zyxel 643 router/ADSL modem that I "wanted to use for pen-testing, but the darn thing dies when doing something as simple as a port scan.

I you have run into the problem, what was the fix other than throttling the scanning app? If a new modem, which one?

TIA Toby

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Received on Wed Jul 9 16:14:54 2003