[16521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router modifications to deal with smurf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Apr 30 02:39:00 1998
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@quadrunner.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 29 Apr 1998 23:27:04 -0700
In-Reply-To: chuegen@quadrunner.com's message of 26 Apr 98 22:35:29 GMT
> Note that I'm not arguing that it *should* be the default, I'm just
> arguing that vendors have implemented it this way because that's the way
> they were told to in the RFC.
Umm.... this is only partially true. As of the writing of 1812 (and
predecessors), vendors had implemented it one particular way and argued
that the spec should reflect the implementations. Of course, at the time,
the net was a kinder, gentler place, and the threats of smurfing were not
well known.
Live and learn. ;-)
Tony
