F9 DOS attack

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:58:27 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Well, my cable modem once again getting a LOT of unsolicited traffic
> from the internet - so much so that nothing I attempt to send gets
> out. My poor ole Dell doesn't even have enough oomph to process keyboard
> commands. Does this qualify as a DOS attack?
> 
> Is there any way to get around this?

Assuming you have firewalling configured to drop all the crud then no -
contact your ISP and law enforcement as appropriate.