[64715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Yuriev)
Fri Oct 31 11:35:39 2003
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:43:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Yuriev <alex@yuriev.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: william@elan.net, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200310310328.h9V3S8gU031474@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > It is content filtering. You are filtering packets that you think are
> > causing problems to the ES that you may not control.
>
> No, he said quite clearly he's filtering packets (such as Nachi ICMP) that are
> causing harm to *his* network. He gets to make a choice - filter the known
> problem packets so the rest of the traffic can get through, or watch the
> network melt down and nobody gets anything.
He needs to fix his network so those 92 byte ICMP packets wont break it.
Alex
