North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: IP flooding by using broadcast address

  • From: Edward Henigin
  • Date: Sat Jul 19 21:02:37 1997 
	before my mailbox gets spammed by all of y'all, I'd like to
publicly apologize for my "cisco bashing."  cisco makes a fine product
that I recommend in most situations.

	I'd still like to know that cisco listens to little guys like
me, tho.

	Also, I need to point out that my recommendations of filtering
the broadcast address are targeted towards leaf networks, rather than
transit networks.


	Ed

--
On Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 05:07:48PM -0500, Edward Henigin said:
> 
> 	I think it would be very wise of cisco to have a global flag
> (or at least, a per-interface flag) which would prevent the forwarding
> of a packet to an all-ones address.  If cisco won't add this feature,
> maybe Ascend will in their GRF, and maybe a few more GRF's will be sold
> because of it.