RE: DSL modems used for pen-testing

From: Jenkins, Christopher P. <cjenkins(at)concordantinc.com>
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 16:00:12 EDT

Hello,
I had the same problem with a Linksys router connected to a cable modem. The only way I could get around this was to hook my scanning station directly to the cable modem to run the scan aggressively.

Chris

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From: Toby Barrick [mailto:tbarrick@covad.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 3:13 PM
To: pen-test
Subject: DSL modems used for pen-testing

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 18:30:25 2003