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Re: Actions to quiet the Smurf amplifiers?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Mon Oct 19 18:38:17 1998

From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: danny@tcb.net
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:17:01 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810191952.TAA24580@tcb.net> from "Danny McPherson" at Oct 19, 98 12:52:03 pm

Danny McPherson writes...

> ingress filtering .. that's a novel idea :-)  

"smart" ingress filtering, as opposed to hard coded filtering, which
is already done a lot.  It would come at some costs, as every packet
would have to have 2 routing lookups done for it, one of which must
return or compare against all routes, not just the best route.

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