Hi Friends,

I am posting more questions that I have faced during my course. Please discuss the same. The next question is:


Regards,

The Morpheus

Dengar is right. We aren't here to do your homework for you. If you're going to post questions you may at the very least post which answer you think is corect and why. I'm sure that the members here will be more than obliging in correcting you if you make a mistake.

BTW, I'd go for answer no. 2. This question is very easy and deals with basic understanding of TCP/IP. If you don't feel comfortable with the study material perhaps you should defer your exam until you've done some revision.

either 2 or 4, i would probably choose 2 since a SYN Flood has nothing to do with a host's bandwidth per say but is an attack on the OS to keep up with the SYN requests  and the ACK's back.  but i could see 4 being an option that could be considered correct depending on how you look at it.

crappyily worded question either way

I would have to say the answer is 4.

The TCP connection process isn't cumbersome SYN/SYNACK/ACK, thats it. Yeah its not a simple as UDP, but really its not "cumbersome" for an enduser in anyway.

Question 4 states bandwidth, however doesn't specifically say network bandwidth. While not completely generic you could interpret that in several ways. In the broadest sense, a given computer only has enough bandwidth to support so many half open connections before it can't take anymore. I would also tend to believe that network bandwidth is directly relevant, as an attacking computer with huge pipe, will overwhelm a target machine with smaller pipe very easily, even though it doesn't take that many packets to create a SYN flood condition.