[4233] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re[2]: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Mon Sep 9 15:23:02 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 15:30:45 -0400
To: pcalhoun@usr.com (Pat Calhoun), nanog@merit.edu,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
At 01:19 PM 9/9/96 -0500, Pat Calhoun wrote:
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> Perry,
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> This is actually quite simple to implement on Dial Access Routers,
> and obviously this is the best place to add the filtering.
How much spare processor do a lot of the dial access servers have left on
them? I am somewhat concerned about the amount of processor left on my dial
access servers.
Justin Newton
Internet Architect
Erol's Internet Services