On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Bradley Reynolds wrote:
In their best attempts to defeat selecting AOL paths through ANS, AOL is announcing many (all?) of their specifics out sprint. This has pretty much defeated my efforts to force traffic out ans.
Does anyone know why they are doing this? Customers are complaining of > 1 s ping times trying to reach aol and though I don't want to configure the routers to appease the customers (as if) the drone of complaints is annoying.
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Does anyone have insight they could share with me?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if it's a problem, why don't you just filter their routes? Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442 Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.