On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Alex Bligh wrote:
If you are paying per bit, you'll still pay for smurfs, but they'll have to be 45Mb/s in size to cause any real damage.
That's just the problem, the smurf attacks we have been receiving lately have been big enough to completely fill our transit T3's causing a negative impact on all of our other services.
You'll probably find BGP flapping up and down as your T1 saturates is more of a problem.
I wasn't planning on running BGP over that link at all, since there will be only a /24 on our end of it, a simple static route on the upstream's side is sufficient. Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442 Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.