[11801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Kastenholz)
Wed Aug 13 07:40:09 1997
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 07:25:41 -0400
To: Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Frank Kastenholz <kasten@gigapacket.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970813123617.187y-100000@apb.iafrica.com>
At 12:45 PM 8/13/97 +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>How do you know it's a directed broadcast if it's not for a connected
>subnet? Yes, you can make some guesses, but I am not convinced that
>that's a good idea.
The last-hop router could do it.
Frank Kastenholz
Gigapacket Networks
