18 Oct
1997
18 Oct
'97
12:56 p.m.
On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Jared Mauch wrote: ==> The warning of doing this is be sure you're running code that ==>doesn't generate icmp administrativeley prohibited messages for each packet ==>denied, else that will melt down your router cpu For a Cisco, the only release this "fast drop" code is currently in is 11.1CA, release 11.1(13.5)CA and later. It is currently not in 11.2, but is being worked on. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.txt for more information regarding filtering/tracing capabilities (and information about "smurf" attacks). /cah