[15346] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Smurfing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Feb 13 18:07:40 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 98 14:52 PST
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> o All router administrators on the immediately reachable
> Internet needs to turn off directed broadcasts on their router
> interfaces. It's conceivable that "a significant portion of
> all" would do as well, but the magnitude of this problem
> boggles the mind. First of all, we'd need to distribute the
> appropriate amount of clue to all the corners of the net where
> this needs to happen. Maybe, just maybe, we'll get there
> sometime (I'm an optimist!).
why should this not have become the default mode for all vendor diustributed
router code?
randy
