[AWS] Question: Can opening more than the number of allowed sessions break aws?

Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Sun, 07 Jul 2002 12:44:55 +0200


Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Ok, but how an UPD connection can be accepted by an TCP/IP protocol ?
> Is that possible ?

It's called "UDP", and it's a connection-less networking protocol.

Unless the IP stack is completely broken, these two things are
completely separate if you ignore that both probably share the same
link (and bandwidth-consuming attacks can saturate it).

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