[11897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICMP Attacks???????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Aug 22 00:05:01 1997
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:55:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Jon Green's message
of "Thu, August 21, 1997 17:18:24 -0500"
regarding "Re: ICMP Attacks??????? "
id <199708212218.RAA20289@worf.netins.net>
Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
[ On Thu, August 21, 1997 at 17:18:24 (-0500), Jon Green wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ICMP Attacks???????
>
> I don't think that's a good idea. The vast majority of routers that
> I sell to customers are not used in Internet applications, and to add
> another configuration step to enable the router to do what routers
> traditionally do by default would be very confusing to the end user.
Wait just one minute there.
You're saying that Corporate America *relies* on being able to to
IP source address spoofing through the routers it builds its commercial
private networks with?
Please don't say it's so. Maybe the Internet is *more* secure than the
average corporate network! ;-)
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