I think Sun could help here with adding something to their sales agreement that could result in people configuring their Sun boxes to be good net citizens. Dan Hollis wrote:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Vadim Antonov wrote:
Yep. Actually, tier-1 ISPs can write the requirement for reverse-path source IP address verification on customer access circuits into their peering agreements. An enforcement can take a form of penalties per verified incident of forged source address attack originating in peer's network.
The best penalty of all - simply pulling customer's plug till they fix their network, with a repeat offense resulting in permanent disconnection.
-Dan
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