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Re: Smurfing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Feb 17 16:49:23 1998

From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
To: alex@Relcom.EU.net (Alex P. Rudnev)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:41:42 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980216183025.17238Y-100000@virgin.relcom.eu.net> from "Alex P. Rudnev" at Feb 16, 98 06:53:35 pm

See RFC2267.

- paul


> Good news.
> 
> One more question (just is there is someone from the CISCO) - what's 
> about source-address filtering at default for the access servers/routers? 
> Note all this problems (SMURF, DENIAL-ATTACK, DNS-FRAUDING, etc etc) can 
> be 100% blocked if ISP would not allow it's customers to send IP packets 
> with the wrong SRC address. If not, they (hackers) should found new, new 
> and new tricks to fraud any IP network.
> 

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