Deja vu. Didn't this same topic crop up a couple of years ago when the IP spoofing-sky-is-falling scare began? If I'm not remiss, the discussion drifted towards encouraging end-system networks to disable source-routing at the entrance to their networks if they were paranoid, but encourage ISP's & transit providers to allow it. - paul At 01:18 PM 9/18/96 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
Worst case, those folks feeling victimized can (and do!) simply shut it off.
This is a very different case from that of SYN flooding, where the victims are powerless to stop it.
Please don't take our LSRR away from us, it is very useful. Campaigning to remove something just because you suspect it might be bad is really not nice -- it will result in random clueless people believeing you when perchance they should not :-)
--jhawk