On Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 04:03:04PM -0400, Netstat Webmaster wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
What he's saying is that someone is mounting broadcast ping flooding attacks with forged source addresses which make them appear to be coming from MAE-East, among other places.
mmmm... no. The forged source address is that of the victim. The listed broadcast addresses are the destinations of the packets with the forged address of the victim. The broadcast addresses are never forged.
Really? Hmmm... In any event, such filtering on the part of IAP's will solve the problem, mostly. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "People propose, science studies, technology Tampa Bay, Florida conforms." -- Dr. Don Norman +1 813 790 7592