[28651] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Internet-draft on DDOS defense...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu May 11 08:10:30 2000
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:04:28 -0400
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: Vipul Shah <svipul@novell.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
Hilarie Orman <HORMAN@novell.com>,
Jamshid Mahdavi <MAHDAVI@novell.com>
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At 08:02 AM 05/11/2000 -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
>Where RFC2644 prevents ALL types of directed broadcast traffic, this
>draft will only have a useful impact on ICMP ECHO, and only in a limited
>case. I have to question whether there's sufficient benefit here to
>warrant opening up the IP stacks on end stations.
That was my point. ;-)
- paul
