[14725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RLBM (un"protection" meathod)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Jan 23 00:11:44 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:04:33 -0500
To: "Sam Birch" <birchsw@i1.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: "Eric Osborne" <osborne@notcom.com>, "Dave Van Allen" <dave@fast.net>,
<eric@ccti.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801230419.WAA00242@mail1.i1.net>
At 10:14 PM 1/22/98 -0600, Sam Birch wrote:
>
>The "no ip directed-broadcast" directive, if applied to all router
>interfaces, will prevent your site from being a bounce site in the smurf
>attack. Unfortunately, it will not prevent you from being the end victim.
So, the education initiative is that *you* and *I* need to explain to
the masses why this needs to be done, no? We even have tee shirts. :-)
- paul
