RE: no ip forged-source-address

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote:

A fundamental effect of spoofing addresses from your local subnet is that when the packets reach their target, the source addresses are meaningful. I realize that the traceability of these packets has already been mentioned, but I want to point out the profound difference between a DDoS attack with meaningful vs. meaningless source addresses.

I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh??