[23951] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Smurf tone down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@nac.net)
Sat May 1 02:55:38 1999
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 02:53:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@nac.net
To: "R.P. Aditya" <aditya@dnai.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199905010649.XAA00723@mercury.dnai.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, R.P. Aditya wrote:
> One said, sorry, can't do it on our router for "technical reasons" (think very
> large national provider).
Yes, I was told this by one upstream as well.
> Another said, since we have lots and lots of customers (implying that there is
> no "normal ICMP flows" level), and we're carrying it over our network to you,
> your router might as well do the work of discarding the packets (think very
> savvy colocation provider).
The point is missed here; don't they realise there is benefit to them?
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