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Re: DoS attacks, NSPs unresponsiveness

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J Bacher)
Thu Nov 2 12:06:11 2000

Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:03:51 -0600 (CST)
From: J Bacher <jb@jbacher.com>
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> > Some suggestions:
> 
> A response I get is that they won't do it because it has a negative
> performance impact on their routers.  They blame the router vendors. 
> Suggestion 5), someone calculate what performance penalty there is for
> typical router configurations when these filters are applied.  Show some
> performance numbers that make the case for or against filtering.

I've seen the same concerns.  Point is, if an individual is concerned
enough to identify what is perceived as a serious problem, then the
indivdiual also needs to identify potential solutions.  If those solutions
require sufficient data for justification -- fine.  If not, then what is
the point of complaining?



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