[3395] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Anderson)
Tue Jul 9 19:57:20 1996
From: Jerry Anderson <jerry@gi.net>
To: avg@ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 18:51:03 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu (North American Network Operators Group)
In-Reply-To: <9607092210.AA19147@butler.ncube.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Jul 9, 96 03:10:38 pm
> That's once again a matter of defaults -- routers should _by
> default_ discard all packets from interfaces which they won't
> use for forwarding those packets back.
Why?
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