10 Jul
1996
10 Jul
'96
9:16 p.m.
From: Jerry Anderson <jerry@gi.net> Subject: Re: Ping flooding
Return-Path: <nanog-owner@merit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9607092210.AA19147@butler.ncube.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Jul ***9, 96 03:10:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu Precedence: bulk
That's once again a matter of defaults -- routers should _by default_ discard all packets from interfaces which they won't use for forwarding those packets back.
Why?
then you'll never have an asymetric route. how handy. -brett