[16415] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operators and smurf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Apr 24 17:27:18 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:03:32 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980424143455.4843E-100000@chert>; from Rusty Zickefoose <rusty@mci.net> on Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 03:19:23PM -0400
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 03:19:23PM -0400, Rusty Zickefoose wrote:
> 2. Routers/Gateways should be configured to drop all packets with
> invalid source addresses.
>
> The problem is us. This isn't a research network run and maintained by
> the knowledgable. This is a business. We're selling a product, and if we
> expect it to operate as advertised, it's up to us to educate those we sell
> it to.
The problem isn't us. It's cicso, and Bay, and Ascend, and... everyone
who won't put an anti-forging filter on their border routers so we
_can_ turn it on. The first time someone co-sues cisco, it'll get
fixed with 30 days.
Cheers,
-- jra
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