1 Oct
2004
1 Oct
'04
10:28 p.m.
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Given recent discussions on blackholing traffic, this may be of interest.
communities to remotely trigger black-holing of a particular destination network to block denial-of-service attacks. Black-holing can be applied on a selection of routers rather than all BGP-speaking routers in the network. The document also describes a sinkhole tunnel
This tunneling is 'centertrack' which is patented... Also, tunneling is a dangerous prospect when you get very large amounts of attack traffic.
hrm... unless Robert can send the Patent No. I think I was mistaken, CenterTrack wasn't patented, though I could swear it was... -Chris