[27291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Fri Feb 11 00:02:53 2000
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:57:46 -0500
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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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.
Um.
I know the basics of the DirecPC service, and not much else about it. From
what I understand, traffic from the customer's PC does not touch
the satellite at all, it goes through the modem, so I assume you're talking
about traffic to the PC here? Can you elaborate, please?
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