[4259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re[2]: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Tue Sep 10 08:20:57 1996
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <chuckie@panix.com>
To: pcalhoun@usr.com (Pat Calhoun)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, perry@piermont.com
In-Reply-To: <233128C0.3000@usr.com> from "Pat Calhoun" at Sep 9, 96 01:19:18 pm
Pat Calhoun writes:
> Perry,
>
> This is actually quite simple to implement on Dial Access Routers,
> and obviously this is the best place to add the filtering.
Sure, that's a place to start. Except for a few problems:
1) The people doing this are not necessarily using a dialup IP
connection.
2) Many of us don't have dial access routers that can handle this.
Alec
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