[15337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Smurfing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo - Network Architect)
Fri Feb 13 15:58:33 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:45:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> ==>Perhaps some of the folks on NANOG that use equipment other than Cisco
> ==>would like to share how they "configure their router for that"? It would
> ==>be a nice service to everyone...
>
> http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.txt
>
> It has Bay Networks and Proteon information, and I'm adding Ascend
> information as well within the next week.
...and I've given Craig FORE, Livingston and DEC info. I'm looking to
get some more CPE-ish vendors out to him as well.
> With Ascend, you must filter traffic to the broadcast address.
Am I the only one who thinks them not setting the knob to turn this off
is nuts? To have to cut filters specific to each address on a case-by
case basis is a lot of work that some people won't take on, and clue-
challenged custromers will have difficulty with...
Joe
