17 Jan
2000
17 Jan
'00
10:52 a.m.
Is this a good idea?
seems to me that there's sufficient chance that it is a REALLY good idea, that folk should seriously try it.
ideas that good should have been implemented a long time ago. OTOH, I am of the opinion that the real problem is neither ICMP nor IP directed broadcast. the real problem, as I see it, is spoofed-source packets. the ....
upon further pondering, I came up with this variation on a time-honored favorite: the solution: cheap, easy, correct...pick 2.
Source routing and connection based services are creaping into the Internet, slowly but surely. Both are a far cry from the destination forwarding and connectionless service that I grew up with. --bill