[27285] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Feb 10 22:09:28 2000
Date: 10 Feb 2000 18:53:50 -0800
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To: ferguson@cisco.com
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Thu, 10 February 2000, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Excuse me, but can you please tell me what "application" a downstream
> customer might be running which originates packets for traffic with
> source addresses which they are not advertising (or you are advertising
> for them)?
The usual example given is Hughes DirectPC, which sends packets with
a source address of the satellite link via a dialup ISP connection.
