[22018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Effects of traffic shaping ICMP (&c.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Kruckenberg)
Wed Dec 2 17:43:25 1998
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:02:40 -0700 (MST)
From: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199812022057.PAA14074@vielle.datasys.net>
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
> Could traffic shaping, or similar QoS configurations, be used to solve
> such issues in a more general way? For example, if my source of packet
> flooding is ICMP, then I'd like to be able to dedicate as much as 1/10th
> (e.g.) of the bandwidth of each link to ICMP. That's plenty of ICMP, but
> it's not so much that an attack using ICMP would be effective.
At the last NANOG, there was a presentation about Cisco's CAR and how
@Home was using it to limit ICMP and detect unusual ICMP activity. Well,
that was part of the talk, at least.
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9811/ppt/witt/index.htm : presentation slides
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9811/cartalk.ram : presentation in RealVideo
Pete.
