5 Aug
2002
5 Aug
'02
11:03 a.m.
Of course, I mean denial of service attacks using source routing, i.e. made possible by use of same. I guess I need to be semantically perfect and I don't always have a wonderful command of the english language it seems, but please grant that I'm not stupid. Thanks On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:51:45AM -0400, bdragon@gweep.net wrote: [snip]
denial of service based upon source routing? I hadn't heard of any denial of service attacks of that sort.
Disabling source-routing is like filtering icmp, sure you might block a few abuses, but more often than not, you are throwing out legitimate traffic.