[27294] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn Morris)
Fri Feb 11 00:28:02 2000
From: "Shawn Morris" <smorris@verio.net>
To: "Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>,
"Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <ferguson@cisco.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:22:37 -0600
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From my understanding the PC sends a packet with a source address that will
be routed back to DirecPC so that it can come down the Satellite link.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Steve Sobol
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:58 PM
> To: Sean Donelan
> Cc: ferguson@cisco.com; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices
>
>
>
> > 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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