[11893] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICMP Attacks???????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Giza)
Thu Aug 21 21:13:32 1997
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:55:16 -0400
From: "Peter E. Giza" <giza@adsmart.net>
To: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
CC: "Erik E. Fair (Time Keeper)" <fair@clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Make them read the 'ingress/egress filtering' by Paul Fergusson et. al.
Apologies to
Paul if I spelled his name incorrectly.
Jon Green wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:18:34 -0700, fair@clock.org writes:
> >
> >There is another mitigation: everyone here should commit to filtering
>
> >customer packets at the customer premesis router (or at the dial in
> for
> >PPP/SLIP) such that it is not possible for a customer to send a
> packet into
> >the network that has an IP source address on it that is not assigned
> to
> >that customer. That is, no more lying about source addresses.
>
> Every time I show a customer of mine how to configure a router, I
> try to educate them on this. We need some kind of massive marketing
> effort to get this out to people though. People would do it, but
> nobody
> knows about it.
>
> Maybe we should get CyberPromo to spam all the technical contacts
> in Internic's database to tell them how to do filtering. :)
>
> -Jon
>
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