Re: smurf

On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 11:39:45AM -0700, Wayne Bouchard wrote:

Since so far 6 people misunderstood this, I *meant* those networks that don't need to permit it, should consider filtering inbound ICMP echo request packets. (And, hence, blocking the spoofed packet from causing an ICMP echo reply flood.)

I personally don't see why this would be preferable to just putting no ip directed-broadcast on all relavent interfaces. Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - ahp@hilander.com | Erols Internet, INC. | |Network Engineer | Springfield, VA. | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+