[11975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICMP Attacks???????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Aug 26 10:29:51 1997
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:17:03 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: Joe Rhett <jrhett@ISite.Net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708260659.XAA28597@narc.noc.isite.net>; from Joe Rhett <jrhett@ISite.Net> on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 11:59:46PM -0700
On Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 11:59:46PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
> Your idea is to waste CPU cycles to prevent people from reading the manual.
No; they're not readong the manual _anyway_.
> > I've yet to have anyone explain to me why adding a requirement to tell
> > the router that a given port has other routers behind it, instead of
> > hosts, "won't work in many, many implementations"... by which I assume
> > you mean many networks, rather than many router brands.
>
> You obviously fail to understand corporate networks. Since corporate
> networks are still 90-9?% of the router business, your requirements for
> what the 'Net needs are irrelevant.
I'd be interested in the source of that statistic... and I thought the
primary focus of NANOG was on networks which _were_ part of the
Internet, but then...
> > Pointers?
[ reply... at which point it becamse as apparent to me as it was to the
rest of y'all that I was fighting out of my weight ]
> Real code, real purpose, real function. Not code to prevent people from
> reading the manual.
Cheers,
-- jra
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