[22577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Gibbard)
Tue Jan 12 13:47:06 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:11:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Gibbard <scg@wwnet.net>
To: danderson@lycos.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <852566F7.005A0943.00@pghmta2.mis.pgh.lycos.com>
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 danderson@lycos.com wrote:
> I'm not sure what the big issue here is with the smurf attacks. If you set
> up some kind of access list that disables incoming icmp traffic, then turn
That breaks path MTU discovery (see RFC 1435 for more info on that), among
other things.
-Steve
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