24 Aug
1998
24 Aug
'98
9:31 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
I believe the major point was that the smurfed traffic shouldnt be routed at all outside of the provider that hasnt fixed their smurf-relays, bringing down the impact on transit providers as well...?
That's exactly it, this is the most net-friendly design I could come up with. Sure, there are several other options. 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.