[11069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP flooding by using broadcast address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Henigin)
Sat Jul 19 21:22:33 1997
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:53:54 -0500
From: Edward Henigin <ed@texas.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970719170748.56839@texas.net>; from Edward Henigin on Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 05:07:48PM -0500
before my mailbox gets spammed by all of y'all, I'd like to
publicly apologize for my "cisco bashing." cisco makes a fine product
that I recommend in most situations.
I'd still like to know that cisco listens to little guys like
me, tho.
Also, I need to point out that my recommendations of filtering
the broadcast address are targeted towards leaf networks, rather than
transit networks.
Ed
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On Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 05:07:48PM -0500, Edward Henigin said:
>
> I think it would be very wise of cisco to have a global flag
> (or at least, a per-interface flag) which would prevent the forwarding
> of a packet to an all-ones address. If cisco won't add this feature,
> maybe Ascend will in their GRF, and maybe a few more GRF's will be sold
> because of it.
