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Re: Smurfing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Feb 13 22:34:18 1998

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:11:03 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03007800b10a8619b538@[198.3.136.121]>; from Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> on Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 06:36:06PM -0500

On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 06:36:06PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> It would be a bad default, since the less experienced net-admin at a
> private company might not understand why broadcasts don't work, whilst the
> more sophisticated net-admins supposedly found at ISP's and NSP's know
> about these things, and usually have some tools to quickly configure
> routers in cookie-cutter fashion, making the defaults unnecessary ;-)

Oh, _obviously_, Dean.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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