[4563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A modest proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Sep 18 11:19:01 1996
To: Allan Chong <allan@bellsouth.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:26:42 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:12:03 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Allan Chong writes:
> The phone company keeps a record of every incoming and outgoing call
> on every line, and performs all sorts of analysis on time of day and
> carrier, and who gets paid for it.
[...]
> ISPs need
> to spend the money to make this a reality and keep accounting data
> for at least several days or a week.
The volume of IP datagrams exceeds the volume of calls worldwide by
orders of magnitude.
The cost of a router is orders of magnitude lower than the cost of a
phone switch.
The quantity of data required to log all packets going by is only
about a factor of ten less than the total data crossing the
network. Imagine the size of the disks involved.
In sort, this is not the way to stop SYN attacks.
Perry
