[3397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Jul 9 20:18:26 1996
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:12:43 +0800
From: avg@ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
To: avg@ncube.com, jerry@gi.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Sorry, i was unclear. It should read "forwarding return packets
back to the original source".
In other words -- assume that forwards and backwards paths are
both crossing the same interface. That assumption is practically
always valid for tail circuits.
--vadim
> 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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