[11513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Thu Jul 31 04:42:41 1997
To: prue@ISI.EDU
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:30:15 PDT."
<199707302330.AA17155@los.isi.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:39:03 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> 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.
Aren't packets sent to null0 process switched?
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
