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Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Sep 3 16:21:33 2003

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:09:38 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: jullrich@euclidian.com
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1062619035.21332.343.camel@bart>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Johannes Ullrich wrote:

>Well, if '100%' includes all the garbage traffic generated by the
>worm d'jeur. On my home cable modem connection, about 80% of the
>packets hitting my firewall are 'junk'. Maybe I would be able
>to actually share files unencrypted using MSFT file sharing. If I can
>manage to inject the necessary traffic between all the Nachia Pings and
>Blaster scans.
>  
>
Once upon a time there was a proposal for a protocol which allowed 
clients to
push a filter configuration to the edge router to both classify traffic 
and filter
unneeded things. For reason or another, this supposedly ended in the bit 
bucket?

Pete




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