On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:00 GMT, "Christopher L. Morrow" said:
I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh??
It's the difference between:
A) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a broken taillight.
B) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a broken taillight and a business card under the windshield wiper that has "Sorry - call me and I'll pay for it" written on the back.
I think the spoofed source filtering is more a red-herring than anything else. Its not the fix for anything related to this problem of attacks on the internet. Spoofed or non, I can forward 1,000,000pps at your network and it will die (most times). This is like trying to fix a rotten decayed tooth with trident.