[4334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Thu Sep 12 15:52:48 1996
From: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:44:23 -0500 (CDT)
To: nanog@merit.edu
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:41:09 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> [...]
> BTW, I would suggest that for a variety of applications, hardware
> assisted filtering boxes that simply take in IP one end and put out
> processed IP on the other end would be of use -- not just for this,
> but also for helping in doing packet traces through high traffic
> areas, for implementing firewalls, and for all sorts of other
> things. Vendors, are you listening?
> [...]
Network Systems has a box which does this for IP over ATM packets. I
believe that it runs at full OC-3c (155 Mbps) speed. It also potentially
does a bunch of other stuff to the IP packets.
It might make an interesting NANOG presentation, if it hasn't been done
already.
-tjs
