[18008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Wallingford)
Sun Jun 21 07:02:44 1998
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 06:25:15 -0400
From: Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net>
Reply-To: brian@meganet.net
To: Henry Linneweh <linneweh@concentric.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Henry Linneweh wrote:
>
> Now that we have gotten down to the nitty gritty here.
>
> AGAIN the main mechanism for spoofing the smurf attacks is A program
> call wingate, ban that code and this problem will be cut more than in half.
Really? Wow - it's truly amazing noone's come up with such a simple
solution so far. Watch out for the photographers - you'll inevitably be
ambushed. My hero :-)
Cheers,
Brian
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Brian Wallingford
Network Operations Manager
Meganet Communications, TCIx, Inc.