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Rate limiting UDP,Multicast,ICMP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gainer)
Tue Nov 13 12:04:22 2001

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:03:58 -0500
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Is it common practice for ISPs to rate limit UDP, Multicast and ICMP on a
customer connection to reduce the effects of various DOS attacks?  On the
backbone?

TIA,

Thomas
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