[3370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Tue Jul 9 13:48:51 1996
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 13:46:58 -0400
To: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 11:57 AM 7/9/96 +0900, you wrote:
>Hi,
>About the only way you can stop this attack would be for ISPs to
>filter out bogus source addresses from their customers. Of course,
>then the mobile IP people would whine. However, given a future of
>more attacks of this nature, I think the mobile IP people are going to
>lose.
As long as the mobile IP address stays inside of one provider then it isn't
a problem.
Justin Newton
Internet Architect
Erol's Internet Services
