[11499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (prue@ISI.EDU)
Wed Jul 30 20:26:17 1997
From: prue@ISI.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:30:15 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Prue@ISI.EDU
A cheap solution for routers who are not expected to forward LAN broadcast
packets is to put a host route in the router to route packets to the
broadcast address to null0. This reduces the per packet overhead of an
access list and silently discards these bad packets.
Walt
