[3421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett D. Watson)
Thu Jul 11 01:14:48 1996
To: Jerry Anderson <jerry@gi.net>
cc: avg@ncube.com (Vadim Antonov),
nanog@merit.edu (North American Network Operators Group)
From: "Brett D. Watson" <bwatson@genuity.net>
Reply-To: bwatson@genuity.net
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 18:16:35 -0700
> From: Jerry Anderson <jerry@gi.net>
> Subject: Re: Ping flooding
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> > 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?
then you'll never have an asymetric route. how handy.
-brett
