Well, considering that Ron works for AOL, I would think he's all over "wierd applications" and "odd protocols" :) - Daniel Golding
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Ron da Silva wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:04:00PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
...For a backbone filtering is another story entirely. Filtering backbone equipment for it's protection is also a completely different topic...
Filtering on the backbone is exactly what I mean. Clueful backbone providers should know the ins and outs of their data...
Wow, this is a bold statement... do you deal at all with asymetrically routed customers? odd protocols? wierd applications? for any 'large' sized provider knowledge of the traffic beyond "its ip" is going to be a very difficult task. Even knowledge of address ranges crossing the network is a tough task give some customers default all traffic via one provider OUT and in through an alternate provider (assymetrical routing).
Really, filtering anything but point incidents isn't a simple task, and at times point incidents are a challenge :)