[11072] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP flooding by using broadcast address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Henigin)
Sun Jul 20 00:25:01 1997
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 23:14:24 -0500
From: Edward Henigin <ed@texas.net>
To: Joe Rhett <jrhett@ISite.Net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707200411.VAA17459@narc.noc.isite.net>; from Joe Rhett on Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 09:11:28PM -0700
On Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 09:11:28PM -0700, Joe Rhett 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,
>
> Yes!
I was just told that the interface command "no ip direct-broadcast"
may be what I was asking for..
Ed
