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Re: Re[2]: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Tue Sep 10 14:42:24 1996

From: "Alec H. Peterson" <chuckie@panix.com>
To: storpis@pbi.net (Sharif Torpis)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:36:29 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: alexis@panix.com, pcalhoun@usr.com, nanog@merit.edu, perry@piermont.com
In-Reply-To: <9609101126.ZM7973@redhead.pbi.net> from "Sharif Torpis" at Sep 10, 96 11:26:08 am

Sharif Torpis writes:
>
>The Ascends can also do this but I agree that you wouldn't want to filter at
>the NAS. Logistical reasons are reason enough to filter at an upstream router
>where the dialup traffic is aggregated.

On top of that, from what I've heard about Ascend's software, I'd
rather use cisco's filters, since thier software is better.

Alec

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