Flood Amplification

• Tools:

• • Scapy - General purpose packet tool
  • • http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
  • NetSamhain
  • • http://sourceforge.net/projects/netsamhain/
  • Nemesis
  • • http://www.packetfactory.net/projects/nemesis/

• Mitigation:

• • Use a connection oriented transport (TCP)
  • Authenticate protocol messages
  • Rate-limit network traffic