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Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks

  • From: Alex.Bligh
  • Date: Thu Jul 31 04:40:50 1997 
> A cheap solution for routers who are not expected to forward LAN broadcast
> packets is to put a host route in the router to route packets to the
> broadcast address to null0.  This reduces the per packet overhead of an
> access list and silently discards these bad packets.

Aren't packets sent to null0 process switched?

Alex Bligh
Xara Networks