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Re: ICMP Attacks???????

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Aug 16 13:53:34 1997

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708160901.KAA04551@diamond.xara.net>

On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Alex.Bligh wrote:

> The other nice solution would be an inverse traceroute that went
> back to each router in turn, passing it a bit of BPF saying "where
> are you getting packets like this from please?". If such a protocol
> existed, this would allow trace back to source (or at least trace

I think UUNet has a tool similar to this that they use internally.

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