[14778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RLBM (un"protection" meathod)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sully@mail.usinternet.com)
Fri Jan 23 17:08:25 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:21:07 +0000
To: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
From: sully@mail.usinternet.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>>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. :-)
>
Well, it certainly is here....its on my borderline router now (in a few
mins). Thanks Paul!
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