[15368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Smurfing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Feb 16 00:37:28 1998
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
To: kcooper@bbnplanet.com (Kelly J. Cooper)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 03:40:38 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9802131831.ZM5786@casbah.bbnplanet.com> from "Kelly J. Cooper" at Feb 13, 98 06:31:25 pm
Prehaps RFC1812 *should* be updated to reflect that this
is destructive behavior.
Having said that, this is work whch should be suggested to
the IETF -- the NANOG participants, being operations focused,
are in a very good position to make noise on this front.
- paul
>
> Excerpted from section 5.3.5:
>
> A router MAY have an option to disable receiving network-prefix-
> directed broadcasts on an interface and MUST have an option to
> disable forwarding network-prefix-directed broadcasts. These options
> MUST default to permit receiving and forwarding network-prefix-
> directed broadcasts.
>
> Or perhaps because the folks on this list haven't made it clear enough
> to their vendors that the default should be "off" <hint>.
