5 Aug
2002
5 Aug
'02
10:51 a.m.
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our packets. While I'm certainly in favor of anything edge providers can do to eliminate denial of service attacks based on source-routing, I certainly don't want anything further. <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.